Post by farmgal on Dec 6, 2012 15:57:52 GMT -5
December 2 is the 337th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 29 days remaining until the end of the year.
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1697 Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, was dedicated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral
1703 Justus Falckner, first Lutheran pastor ordained in America, began serving his first parish in New York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Falckner
1775 The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Flag
1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823 Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
1845 Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1848 Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1851 French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).
1859 Militant messianic abolitionist John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, (West) Virginia, for his attack on Harper's Ferry (b. 9 May 1800).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
1867 At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_Temple
1899 Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
1908 Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
1917 An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.
1927 Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1930 Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1939 New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
1942 During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1943 A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
1954 Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
1954 The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C..
1956 The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1962 Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
1970 The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1980 Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
1982 At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
1988 Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
1993 Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Births
1497 Hans Holbein (the Younger), at Augsburg, Germany, portrait painter and engraver (d. 1543).
1694 William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
1754 William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
1760 John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General (d. 1806)
1810 Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician (d. 1892)
1831 Francis Nathan Peloubet, in New York City, American Congregational clergyman and promoter of the Sunday school (d. 1920).
www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1801-1900/peloubet-of-the-famous-notes-11630411.html
1836 Moritz Braeuninger, in Crimmitschau, Saxony, missionary to the American Indians, (d. 1860).
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=b&word=BRAEUNINGER.MORITZ
1863 Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
1866 Harry Burleigh, African American composer, arranger, and professional singer (d. 1949)
1885 George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
1891 Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
1894 Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
1899 Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1910 Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
1914 Bill Erwin, American actor (d. 2010)
1914 Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
1914 Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
1917 Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
1921 Carlo Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
1924 Alexander Haig, American Soldier & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of State (d. 2010)
1925 Julie Harris, American actress
1930 Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
1931 Edwin Meese, American jurist and 75th United States Attorney General
1933 Mike Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
1934 Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
1935 David Hackett Fischer, American historian
1939 Harry Reid, American Senator and Majority Leader
1943 Wayne Allard, American politician
1944 Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress
1945 Penelope Spheeris, American film director
1946 David Macaulay, British-born American author
1946 Pedro Borbón, Dominican baseball pitcher (d. 2012)
1948 Elizabeth Berg, American writer
1948 T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
1949 Ron Raines, American actor
1950 Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd on Whale Wars.
1950 Bob Kevoian, American radio personality
1951 Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
1951 Carol Shea-Porter, American congresswoman
1952 Rob Mounsey, American musician
1954 Dan Butler, American actor
1954 Stone Phillips, American television journalist
1956 Steven Bauer, American actor
1958 George Saunders, American writer
1963 Dan Gauthier, American actor
1963 Ann Patchett, American novelist
1968 Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)
1968 Lucy Liu, American actress
1968 Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
1968 Rena Sofer, American actress
1970 Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)
1970 Joe Lo Truglio, American actor, writer and comedian
1971 Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
1978 Jarron Collins, American basketball player
1978 Jason Collins, American basketball player
1979 Melissa Archer, American actress
1981 Britney Spears, American singer, dancer and entertainer
1982 Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen
1982 Pizon, American rapper/producer
1982 Matt Ware, American football player
1983 Jana Kramer, American actress
1983 Aaron Rodgers, American football player
1985 Dorell Wright, American basketball player
1987 Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
1991 Brandon Knight, American basketball player
Deaths
1264 Pope Urban IV died (b. ca. 1195)
1469 Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1416)
1515 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (b. 1453)
1547 Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer (b. 1485)
1570 Matthaeus Alber, the “Luther of Swabia,” reformer, friend of Philipp Melanchthon and reformer of Reutlingen (b. 1495, Reutlingen).
1594 Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (b. 1512) \
1552 Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary to Asia and one of the founding members of his order (b 7 Apr 1506).
1726 Samuel Penhallow, English-American historian (b. 1665)
1814 Marquis de Sade, French politician and philosopher (b. 1740
1859 John Brown, American activist (b. 1800)
1892 Jay Gould, American financier (b. 1836)
1936 John Ringling, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Brothers Circus (b. 1866)
1957 Harrison Ford, American actor (b. 1884)
1963 Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor (b. 1924)
1963 – Thomas Hicks, English-American runner (b. 1875)
1976 Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
1982 Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (b. 1933)
1985 Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
1986 Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1917)
1986 Lee Dorsey, American singer (b. 1924)
1986 John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)
1990 Aaron Copland, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
1990 Robert Cummings, American actor (b. 1908)
1993 Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
1995 Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
1997 Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
2000 Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
2004 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
2005 Kenneth Lee Boyd, American murderer (b. 1948)
2005 William P. Lawrence, American navy officer (b. 1930)
2005 Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
2008 Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (b. 1930)
2008 Kathleen Baskin-Ball, American minister (b. 1958)
2009 Foge Fazio, American football player and coach (b. 1938)
2012 Israel Keyes, American criminal (b. 1978)
www.lcms.org/
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1202.htm
There are 29 days remaining until the end of the year.
Countdown until Obama should have been leaving Office
www.obamaclock.org/
Days until coming elections:
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
1697 Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, was dedicated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral
1703 Justus Falckner, first Lutheran pastor ordained in America, began serving his first parish in New York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Falckner
1775 The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Flag
1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823 Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
1845 Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1848 Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1851 French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).
1859 Militant messianic abolitionist John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, (West) Virginia, for his attack on Harper's Ferry (b. 9 May 1800).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
1867 At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_Temple
1899 Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
1908 Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
1917 An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.
1927 Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1930 Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1939 New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
1942 During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1943 A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
1954 Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
1954 The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C..
1956 The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1962 Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
1970 The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1980 Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
1982 At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
1988 Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
1993 Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Births
1497 Hans Holbein (the Younger), at Augsburg, Germany, portrait painter and engraver (d. 1543).
1694 William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
1754 William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
1760 John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General (d. 1806)
1810 Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician (d. 1892)
1831 Francis Nathan Peloubet, in New York City, American Congregational clergyman and promoter of the Sunday school (d. 1920).
www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1801-1900/peloubet-of-the-famous-notes-11630411.html
1836 Moritz Braeuninger, in Crimmitschau, Saxony, missionary to the American Indians, (d. 1860).
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=b&word=BRAEUNINGER.MORITZ
1863 Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
1866 Harry Burleigh, African American composer, arranger, and professional singer (d. 1949)
1885 George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
1891 Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
1894 Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
1899 Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1910 Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
1914 Bill Erwin, American actor (d. 2010)
1914 Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
1914 Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
1917 Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
1921 Carlo Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
1924 Alexander Haig, American Soldier & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of State (d. 2010)
1925 Julie Harris, American actress
1930 Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
1931 Edwin Meese, American jurist and 75th United States Attorney General
1933 Mike Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
1934 Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
1935 David Hackett Fischer, American historian
1939 Harry Reid, American Senator and Majority Leader
1943 Wayne Allard, American politician
1944 Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress
1945 Penelope Spheeris, American film director
1946 David Macaulay, British-born American author
1946 Pedro Borbón, Dominican baseball pitcher (d. 2012)
1948 Elizabeth Berg, American writer
1948 T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
1949 Ron Raines, American actor
1950 Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd on Whale Wars.
1950 Bob Kevoian, American radio personality
1951 Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
1951 Carol Shea-Porter, American congresswoman
1952 Rob Mounsey, American musician
1954 Dan Butler, American actor
1954 Stone Phillips, American television journalist
1956 Steven Bauer, American actor
1958 George Saunders, American writer
1963 Dan Gauthier, American actor
1963 Ann Patchett, American novelist
1968 Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)
1968 Lucy Liu, American actress
1968 Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
1968 Rena Sofer, American actress
1970 Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)
1970 Joe Lo Truglio, American actor, writer and comedian
1971 Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
1978 Jarron Collins, American basketball player
1978 Jason Collins, American basketball player
1979 Melissa Archer, American actress
1981 Britney Spears, American singer, dancer and entertainer
1982 Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen
1982 Pizon, American rapper/producer
1982 Matt Ware, American football player
1983 Jana Kramer, American actress
1983 Aaron Rodgers, American football player
1985 Dorell Wright, American basketball player
1987 Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
1991 Brandon Knight, American basketball player
Deaths
1264 Pope Urban IV died (b. ca. 1195)
1469 Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1416)
1515 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (b. 1453)
1547 Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer (b. 1485)
1570 Matthaeus Alber, the “Luther of Swabia,” reformer, friend of Philipp Melanchthon and reformer of Reutlingen (b. 1495, Reutlingen).
1594 Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (b. 1512) \
1552 Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary to Asia and one of the founding members of his order (b 7 Apr 1506).
1726 Samuel Penhallow, English-American historian (b. 1665)
1814 Marquis de Sade, French politician and philosopher (b. 1740
1859 John Brown, American activist (b. 1800)
1892 Jay Gould, American financier (b. 1836)
1936 John Ringling, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Brothers Circus (b. 1866)
1957 Harrison Ford, American actor (b. 1884)
1963 Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor (b. 1924)
1963 – Thomas Hicks, English-American runner (b. 1875)
1976 Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
1982 Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (b. 1933)
1985 Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
1986 Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1917)
1986 Lee Dorsey, American singer (b. 1924)
1986 John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)
1990 Aaron Copland, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
1990 Robert Cummings, American actor (b. 1908)
1993 Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
1995 Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
1997 Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
2000 Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
2004 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
2005 Kenneth Lee Boyd, American murderer (b. 1948)
2005 William P. Lawrence, American navy officer (b. 1930)
2005 Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
2008 Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (b. 1930)
2008 Kathleen Baskin-Ball, American minister (b. 1958)
2009 Foge Fazio, American football player and coach (b. 1938)
2012 Israel Keyes, American criminal (b. 1978)
www.lcms.org/
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1202.htm