This day in history!

chrisinhouston · 12-12-2006, 03:59 PM

Dec 12 1980

"Whip It" earns Devo a gold record. It is the first distinction of its kind for any song about masturbation. Whip it good.

Sheldonrs · 12-12-2006, 04:15 PM

December 12, 1960 - Sheldon Siegel was born. :-)

DanaC · 12-12-2006, 04:32 PM

*Raises a glass to Sheldon*

Shawnee123 · 12-12-2006, 06:40 PM

We are DEVO!

Aliantha · 12-12-2006, 07:01 PM

I always hated that song.

Spexxvet · 12-12-2006, 08:05 PM

I am a Devotee. They are underrated - give them a chance.

chrisinhouston · 12-13-2006, 09:37 AM

Today is December 13.

On this date in 1937 the Japanese Army occupies Nanking, China. For the next three weeks, with the unspoken permission of the army, soldiers literally rape the city, committing untold individual acts of atrocity and killing 350,000 civilians. It became know as The Rape of Nanking but remains an event unacknowledged and unapologized by the Japanese government.

It is for the crimes against the women of Nanking that this tragedy is most notorious. Over the six weeks of the massacre, in addition to the murder of about 300,000 civilians, the Japanese troops raped over 20,000 women, most of whom were murdered thereafter. In recognition of these horrifying acts, the massacre is also commonly referred to as 'the rape of Nanking.'

Women of all ages (including children as young as seven and elderly women in their seventies) were violated, many of them being gangraped or attacked on multiple occasions. Some women were held captive so that the could be repeatedly abused. Rapes were committed in broad daylight, in front of spouses, children, or other family members, and with appalling frequency.

The soldiers' usual practice, officially condoned by high-ranking officials so as to "avoid difficulties," was to murder the women when they were finished with them. This was most often done by cutting off their breasts and/or disemboweling them with a bayonet to the abdomen. Senior officers were not only aware of these acts, but participated in them as well.
According to reports from Nanking, so many Chinese were beheaded, it left Japanese soldiers exhausted at day's end.

Sheldonrs · 12-13-2006, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC

*Raises a glass to Sheldon*

Why Thank you! :-)

xoxoxoBruce · 12-13-2006, 10:18 PM

Chris, I've done a lot of reading on the Rape of Nanking. There is a lot written, which expands on what you've highlighted, and absolutely sickening.

12-14-2006, 12:56 AM

12/14....

On this day...
0644 Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam
0867 Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0872 John VIII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1124 Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses)
1287 Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
1490 Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria
1575 Polish Parliament selects István Báthory as king of Poland
1582 Zealand/Brabant Netherlands adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 12/25
1600 Olivier van Noort sinks Sp galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die
1656 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
1708 Prosper Jolyot's "Electre" premieres in Paris
1774 Massachusetts militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Fort William & Mary
1782 Charleston SC evacuated by British
1793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort KY to Cincinnati OH
1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
1819 Alabama admitted to the Union as the 22nd state
1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
1849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
1863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee
1882 Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo
1889 American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Philadelphia
1894 Day One 1st Test Cricket Australia vs England Australia 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)
1894 Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren
1901 1st table tennis tournament is held at the London Royal Aquarium
1903 Reg Foster completes 287 England vs Australia on Test Cricket debut
1911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete
1915 Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
1917 UFA, "Universal Film AG", forms in Germany
1918 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico" premieres in New York NY
1920 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in New York NY
1923 Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)
1924 Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou
1924 Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma" premieres in Paris
1926 Danish Madsen government, forms
1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1928 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs England starts with Bradman 12th man
1929 Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece
1930 New York Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
1931 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
1932 French government of Herriot falls
1933 Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
1934 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)
1935 Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith vs South Africa, Durban
1937 Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing
1938 American League permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games
1938 Major leagues agree on standard ball
1938 Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25
1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as American League president
1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland - League of Nations drops Soviet Union
1941 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York
1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea
1944 Congress establishes rank of General of the Army (5-star General)
1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
1944 German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
1945 Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl" premieres in New York NY
1946 Togo is made a trusteeship territory of the UN
1946 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in New York NY
1946 "Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 performances
1947 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
1950 UN General Assembly establishes High Commissioner for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
1950 "Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 performances
1950 Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner
1952 KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut vs Pakistan, Calcutta
1952 Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die
1953 Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax
1954 WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar
1955 Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic
1956 Paul-Henri Spaak appointed Secretary-General of NATO
1957 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 performances
1957 "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 45 performances
1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 meters
1959 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed President of Cyprus
1960 Australia vs West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
1960 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
1960 Washington Senators joins American League
1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record

12-14-2006, 12:57 AM

1962 Mariner 2 launched, makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champion
1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
1965 "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances
1967 DNA created in a test tube
1969 "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance
1969 Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) vs Australia at Calcutta
1969 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
1972 Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor
1974 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
1974 Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 vs India 20 fours 6 sixes
1975 6 South Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
1975 WCPR (Brooklyn NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1975 "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances
1976 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social-democratic abortion laws
1977 Egypt & Israel representatives gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
1977 "Saturday Night Fever", starring John Travolta, premieres in New York NY
1977 Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni & cash
1977 Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, vs England at Lahore
1977 War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years
1978 "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
1978 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
1980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat New York Jets 21-20
1980 "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance
1980 Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24
1980 Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)
1982 Marcel Dionne, Los Angeles CA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 5 performances
1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1985 US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world
1987 Allan Border scores 205 vs New Zealand to become Australia's top rungetter
1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
1988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 losses
1988 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures
1988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Organization (1st time in 13 years)
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe" premieres in London
1991 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)
1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
1992 Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refuses to fight him
1993 Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
1995 "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
1995 AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant
1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1996 62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB)
1997 "View From the Bridge" opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 Diners Club Senior Golf Match
1997 Juli Inkster & Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches
1997 Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Alabama : Admission Day (1819)
El Salvador : Revolution Day
Iran : Death of Iman Ja'far Sadeq Day
Turkey : Festival of Mevlana-Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes)
World : Halcyon Days

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Religious Observances
Lutheran : Commemoration of Teresa of Avila
Roman Catholic, Lutheran : Memorial of St Spyridon
Roman Catholic, Lutheran : Feast of John of the Cross, priest/doctor

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Religious History
1363 Birth of Jean Charlier de Gerson, French theologian. During the papal schism of 1378_1414, Gerson attended the councils of Pisa (1409) and Constance (1414_18). He spent his last years in a monastery at Lyons teaching children, composing hymns and writing books on Christian mysticism.
l836 Birth of Frances Ridley Havergal, English devotional writer. In frail health most of her life, Miss Havergal was nevertheless a fruitful writer, and authored such hymns as "Take My Life and Let It Be," "Who is on the Lord's Side?" and "I Gave My Life for Thee."
1922 "Toc H" (the British alphabetic letter abbreviation for "Talbot House") was chartered. A Christian fellowship which originated in 1915 in Belgium under Anglican chaplain P.T.B. Clayton, M.C., its various branches minister through a variety of Christian social services.
1955 Catholic religious leader, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 60, was quoted in "Look" magazine on this date as stating that 'an atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.'
1981 The modern nation of Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights, which had been captured from Syria during the 1967 War.

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-26-2006, 02:05 AM

Meh. Shot right by Beethoven's birthday, the sixteenth.

12-12-2006, 03:59 PM	#1
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	This day in history! Dec 12 1980 "Whip It" earns Devo a gold record. It is the first distinction of its kind for any song about masturbation. Whip it good. Attached Images

12-12-2006, 04:15 PM	#2
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	December 12, 1960 - Sheldon Siegel was born. :-) __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

12-12-2006, 06:40 PM	#4
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Are we not men? We are DEVO! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

12-12-2006, 07:01 PM	#5
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I always hated that song. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

12-12-2006, 08:05 PM	#6
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	I am a Devotee. They are underrated - give them a chance. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

12-12-2006, 04:32 PM	#3
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Raises a glass to Sheldon

12-13-2006, 09:37 AM	#7
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	Today is December 13. On this date in 1937 the Japanese Army occupies Nanking, China. For the next three weeks, with the unspoken permission of the army, soldiers literally rape the city, committing untold individual acts of atrocity and killing 350,000 civilians. It became know as The Rape of Nanking but remains an event unacknowledged and unapologized by the Japanese government. It is for the crimes against the women of Nanking that this tragedy is most notorious. Over the six weeks of the massacre, in addition to the murder of about 300,000 civilians, the Japanese troops raped over 20,000 women, most of whom were murdered thereafter. In recognition of these horrifying acts, the massacre is also commonly referred to as 'the rape of Nanking.' Women of all ages (including children as young as seven and elderly women in their seventies) were violated, many of them being gangraped or attacked on multiple occasions. Some women were held captive so that the could be repeatedly abused. Rapes were committed in broad daylight, in front of spouses, children, or other family members, and with appalling frequency. The soldiers' usual practice, officially condoned by high-ranking officials so as to "avoid difficulties," was to murder the women when they were finished with them. This was most often done by cutting off their breasts and/or disemboweling them with a bayonet to the abdomen. Senior officers were not only aware of these acts, but participated in them as well. According to reports from Nanking, so many Chinese were beheaded, it left Japanese soldiers exhausted at day's end. Attached Images

12-13-2006, 10:18 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Chris, I've done a lot of reading on the Rape of Nanking. There is a lot written, which expands on what you've highlighted, and absolutely sickening. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-14-2006, 12:56 AM	#10
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	12/14.... On this day... 0644 Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam 0867 Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0872 John VIII begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1124 Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses) 1287 Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives 1490 Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria 1575 Polish Parliament selects István Báthory as king of Poland 1582 Zealand/Brabant Netherlands adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 12/25 1600 Olivier van Noort sinks Sp galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die 1656 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales 1708 Prosper Jolyot's "Electre" premieres in Paris 1774 Massachusetts militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Fort William & Mary 1782 Charleston SC evacuated by British 1793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort KY to Cincinnati OH 1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine 1819 Alabama admitted to the Union as the 22nd state 1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins 1849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston) 1863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee 1882 Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo 1889 American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Philadelphia 1894 Day One 1st Test Cricket Australia vs England Australia 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85) 1894 Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren 1901 1st table tennis tournament is held at the London Royal Aquarium 1903 Reg Foster completes 287 England vs Australia on Test Cricket debut 1911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen 1913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete 1915 Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion 1917 UFA, "Universal Film AG", forms in Germany 1918 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico" premieres in New York NY 1920 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in New York NY 1923 Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings) 1924 Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou 1924 Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma" premieres in Paris 1926 Danish Madsen government, forms 1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1928 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs England starts with Bradman 12th man 1929 Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece 1930 New York Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game 1931 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht 1932 French government of Herriot falls 1933 Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam 1934 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY) 1935 Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith vs South Africa, Durban 1937 Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing 1938 American League permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games 1938 Major leagues agree on standard ball 1938 Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25 1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as American League president 1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland - League of Nations drops Soviet Union 1941 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14 1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York 1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea 1944 Congress establishes rank of General of the Army (5-star General) 1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany 1944 German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland 1945 Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl" premieres in New York NY 1946 Togo is made a trusteeship territory of the UN 1946 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in New York NY 1946 "Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 performances 1947 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game 1950 UN General Assembly establishes High Commissioner for Refugees (Nobel 1954) 1950 "Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 performances 1950 Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner 1952 KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso TX (CBS) begins broadcasting 1952 R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut vs Pakistan, Calcutta 1952 Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax 1954 WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley WV (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar 1955 Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic 1956 Paul-Henri Spaak appointed Secretary-General of NATO 1957 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 performances 1957 "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 45 performances 1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 meters 1959 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed President of Cyprus 1960 Australia vs West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie 1960 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms 1960 Washington Senators joins American League 1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record

12-14-2006, 12:57 AM	#11
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	1962 Mariner 2 launched, makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus) 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1963 Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champion 1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene" 1965 "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances 1967 DNA created in a test tube 1969 "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance 1969 Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) vs Australia at Calcutta 1969 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show" 1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure 1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1972 Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon 1972 Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor 1974 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0 1974 Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 vs India 20 fours 6 sixes 1975 6 South Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days 1975 WCPR (Brooklyn NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM 1975 "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances 1976 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social-democratic abortion laws 1977 Egypt & Israel representatives gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference 1977 "Saturday Night Fever", starring John Travolta, premieres in New York NY 1977 Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni & cash 1977 Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, vs England at Lahore 1977 War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years 1978 "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances 1978 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China 1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1980 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot 1980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon 1980 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat New York Jets 21-20 1980 "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance 1980 Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24 1980 Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967) 1982 Marcel Dionne, Los Angeles CA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals 1983 "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 5 performances 1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football 1985 US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin 1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world 1987 Allan Border scores 205 vs New Zealand to become Australia's top rungetter 1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new 1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights 1988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 losses 1988 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures 1988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Organization (1st time in 13 years) 1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later 1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe" premieres in London 1991 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR) 1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed 1992 Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refuses to fight him 1993 Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria 1995 "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki 1995 AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant 1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards 1996 62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB) 1997 "View From the Bridge" opens at Criterion Theater NYC 1997 Diners Club Senior Golf Match 1997 Juli Inkster & Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches 1997 Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week" Alabama : Admission Day (1819) El Salvador : Revolution Day Iran : Death of Iman Ja'far Sadeq Day Turkey : Festival of Mevlana-Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes) World : Halcyon Days -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Religious Observances Lutheran : Commemoration of Teresa of Avila Roman Catholic, Lutheran : Memorial of St Spyridon Roman Catholic, Lutheran : Feast of John of the Cross, priest/doctor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Religious History 1363 Birth of Jean Charlier de Gerson, French theologian. During the papal schism of 1378_1414, Gerson attended the councils of Pisa (1409) and Constance (1414_18). He spent his last years in a monastery at Lyons teaching children, composing hymns and writing books on Christian mysticism. l836 Birth of Frances Ridley Havergal, English devotional writer. In frail health most of her life, Miss Havergal was nevertheless a fruitful writer, and authored such hymns as "Take My Life and Let It Be," "Who is on the Lord's Side?" and "I Gave My Life for Thee." 1922 "Toc H" (the British alphabetic letter abbreviation for "Talbot House") was chartered. A Christian fellowship which originated in 1915 in Belgium under Anglican chaplain P.T.B. Clayton, M.C., its various branches minister through a variety of Christian social services. 1955 Catholic religious leader, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 60, was quoted in "Look" magazine on this date as stating that 'an atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.' 1981 The modern nation of Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights, which had been captured from Syria during the 1967 War.

12-26-2006, 02:05 AM	#12
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Meh. Shot right by Beethoven's birthday, the sixteenth. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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