Historical Events
1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.
1853 - A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur) created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
1932 - Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG
1957 - New York Giants win NFL championship
1978 - Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
1987 - Australia hang on for draw v NZ at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short
Famous Birthdays
1952 - Larry Bartlett, photographic printer
1953 - Meredith Vieira, American television journalist
1958 - Brandon Clark, actor (Sean-The Fitzpatricks), born in NYC, New York
1961 - Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
1962 - Paul Crowder, rocker (The Adventures-Sea of Love)
1978 - Tyrese, American singer and actor
Famous Deaths
1591 - Innocent IX, [Giovanni Facchinetti], Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72
1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1952 - Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies
1999 - Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader, dies at 94
2012 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist and Nobel laureate, dies from natural causes at 103
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://www.historyorb.com/day/december/30
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