Today in History

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Events
399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope
1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont
1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed in storm
1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded
1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies
1924 - In the New York City the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held
1926 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins
1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would “save humanity from the ultimate disaster”
1973 - The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on 6 December, the House confirmed him 387 to 35)
1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White
2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere was discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet

Births
1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1638)
1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1701 - Anders Celsius, inventor, astronomer (d. 1744)
1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1899)
1843 - Elizabeth Stride, third confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, physiologist, winner of 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1952)
1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, science fiction writer (d. 2000)
1916 - Chick Hearn, sports announcer (d. 2002)
1942 - Jimi Hendrix, musician (d. 1970)
1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
1944 - Eddie Rabbitt, singer (d. 1998)
1953 - Curtis Armstrong, actor
1957 - Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, journalist

Deaths
8 BC Horace, poet and satirist
1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
1895 - Alexandre Dumas fils, author
1953 - Eugene O’Neill, playwright
1975 - Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper
1978 - George Moscone, politician
1978 - Harvey Milk, politician
1988 - John Carradine, actor

Recorded this date
1945 “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne)
- Connie Boswell with O/Russ Morgan
1947 “Galway Bay” (w.m. Dr Arthur Colahan)
- Bing Crosby with O/Victor Young
1947 “In The Still Of The Night” (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Jo Stafford with O/Paul Weston