Saturday, 6 December 2014

Today in History for 6th December 2014

Historical Events


963 - Leo VIII elected Pope

1864 - Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC

1877 - First recording made of the human voce - Thomas Edison reciting "Mary had a little lamb"

1962 - US abandons Skybolt balistic missile program

1965 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.

1993 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29


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Famous Birthdays


1823 - Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900)

1831 - Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862

1943 - Mike Smith, London England, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)

1955 - Malcolm Jarvis, cricket lefty paceman (Zimbabwe's 1st Test side)

1955 - Bill Lloyd, Bowling Green Ky, singer (Foster and Lloyd-Crazy Over You)

1956 - Peter Buck, US pop guitarist (REM-Murmur)


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Famous Deaths


1651 - Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68

1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)

1986 - Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22

1994 - Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61

1995 - [Schaff] Claire Polin, composer, dies at 69

2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)


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