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December 17 leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 14 days remaining.
Events
283 - St Gaius becomes Pope .384 - St Siricius becomes Pope .1586 - The reign of Emperor Go-Yozei , the 107th imperial ruler of Japan , begins.1637 - The Shimabara Rebellion breaks out in Japan.1777 - France becomes the first nation to recognize the United States .1843 - "A Christmas Carol ", a fictional short story by Charles Dickens , is first published.1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11 , expelling Jews from Tennessee , Mississippi , and Kentucky .1903 - First powered flight, by the Wright Brothers .1919 - Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty .1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 .1939 - German battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff at the Battle of the River Plate .1941 - German siege of Sevastopol begins1944 - Western Defense Command issues proclamation ending requirement of Japanese internment .1944 - In what became known as the Malmédy massacre , around 80 American POW are executed by Waffen-SS troops of Jochen Peiper ’s Kampfgruppe.
1961 - India seizes Goa from Portugal 1961 - A fire at a circus in Niteroi, Brazil kills 323 people.
1967 - Harold Holt , Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908 ) disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria 1969 - The U.S. Air Force announces that its UFO investigations have found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.1969 - SALT I talks begin
1970 - My Lai trial begins1970 - Coastal cities events Mass riots in the coastal cities of Poland ended in massacre of shipyard workers in Gdynia
1973 - The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses .1978 - The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.1981 - U.S. army officer James Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona , Italy 1989 - The first episode of The Simpsons Fox network 1989 - Brazil holds its first free election in 25 years.
1989 - Full-scale street manifestations and riots in Timisoara ignite the Romanian Revolution
1997 - A chartered Yakovlev-42 from Ukraine crashes into the mountains near Katerini, Greece killing 701998 - Claudia Benton is murdered in her West University , Texas home by Angel Maturino Resendiz . She is his fifth murder victim in his fourth incident.2002 - A peace accord is signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .2003 - First supersonic flight by Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne 2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Peter Jackson 's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy
Births
1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu , Japanese shogun (d. 1256 )1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324 )1619 - Prince Rupert , Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682 )1632 - Anthony Wood , English antiqurian (d. 1695 )1685 - Thomas Tickell , English writer (d. 1740 )1706 - Émilie du Châtelet , French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749 )1734 - Maria I of Portugal , Portuguese queen (d. 1816 )1749 - Domenico Cimarosa , Italian composer (d. 1801 )1778 - Humphry Davy , English chemist (d. 1829 )1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton , Canadian novelist (d. 1865 )1799 - Titian Peale , American artist (d. 1885 )1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier , American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892 )1830 - Jules de Goncourt , French publisher (d. 1870 )1853 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree , English actor (d. 1917 )1859 - Paul César Helleu , French artist (d. 1927 )1872 - Mistinguett , French actress and singer (d. 1956 )1873 - Ford Madox Ford , English writer (d. 1939 )1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King , tenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950 )1892 - Sam Barry , American basketball coach (d. 1950 )1893 - Erwin Piscator , German film director (d. 1966 )1894 - Arthur Fiedler , American conductor (d. 1979 )1901 - Lee Strasberg , Austrian-born actor and director (d. 1982 )1903 - Erskine Caldwell , American author (d. 1987 )1903 - Ray Noble , English musician {d. 1978 }
1906 - Simo Häyhä , Finnish soldier (d. 2002 )1908 - Willard Frank Libby , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980 )1911 - André Claveau , French singer (d. 2003 )1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald , English writer (d. 2000 )1929 - William Safire , American columnist1929 - Jacqueline Hill , British actress (d. 1993 )
1930 - Bob Guccione , American magazine publisher1930 - Bob Mathias , American athlete
1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl , German actor
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot , Canadian musician1938 - Peter Snell , New Zealand athlete
1939 - Eddie Kendricks , American musician (d. 1992 )1941 - Gene Clark , American musician (d. 1991 )1942 - Paul Butterfield , American musician (d. 1987 )1943 - Ron Geesin , Scottish musician1943 - Lauren Hutton , American model and actress
1944 - Jack L. Chalker , Canadian novelist1944 - Lorne Michaels , Canadian film producer
1944 - Bernard Hill , English actor
1945 - Elvin Hayes , American basketball player1945 - Ernie Hudson , American actor1949 - Paul Rodgers , British singer (Free )1951 - Ken Hitchcock , Canadian hockey coach1987 - Art Porter, Central High Student1955 - Brad Davis , American basketball player1966 - Kristiina Ojuland , Estonian politician1968 - Paul Tracy , Canadian race car driver1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau , French basketball player1973 - Paula Radcliffe , English runner1975 - Nick Dinsmore , American professional wrestler1975 - Milla Jovovich , Ukrainian-born actress and model
Deaths
1187 - Pope Gregory VIII 1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150 )1273 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi , Persian poet and mystic (b. 1207 )1663 - Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583 )1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough , English statesman (b. 1640 )1812 - Kaspar Hauser , German foundling (b. 1812 )1830 - Simón Bolívar , Latin American politician and activist (b. 1783 )1897 - Alphonse Daudet , French writer (b. 1840 )1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , Irish-born physicist (b. 1824 )1909 - King Léopold II of Belgium (b. 1835 )1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , English physician (b. 1836 )1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers , English writer (b. 1893 )1964 - Victor Franz Hess , Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883 )1987 - Irving Allen , American producer (b. 1916 )1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar , Belgian novelist (b. 1903 )
1992 - Dana Andrews , American actor (b. 1909 )1998 - Claudia Benton , Peruvian child psychologist (b. 1959 )1999 - Grover Washington Jr. , American musician (b. 1943 )2003 - Ed Devereaux , Australian actor (b. 1925 )2003 - Otto Graham , American football player (b. 1921 )
Holidays and observances
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