lunes, 6 de diciembre de 2010

Today's Highlights in History

On This Day in HistoryMonday, December 06th
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Today's Highlights in History

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On Dec. 6, 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress. (Go to article.)On Dec. 61898Alfred Eisenstaedt,the German-born photographer whose pioneering images for Life magazine helped define American photojournalism, was born. Followinghis death on Aug. 231995hisobituary appeared in The Times.(Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day

On December  6, 1879Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the White River massacre in Colorado(See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

On this date in:
1790Congress moved from New York City to Philadelphia.
1907The worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as 362 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, W.Va.
1947Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated.
1957The AFL-CIO expelled the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
1957America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1969A free concert by the Rolling Stones at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, Calif., was marred by the deaths of four people, including a man who was stabbed by a Hell's Angel.
1973House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to income tax evasion.
1992Thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque in India, setting off two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting that claimed at least 2,000 lives.
1994Orange County, Calif., filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion.
1998Hugo Chavez, who had staged a bloody coup attempt against the Venezuelan government six years earlier, was elected president.
2003Army became the first team to finish 0-13 in major college football history after a 34-6 loss to Navy.
2004Al-Qaida struck the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, with explosives and machine guns, killing nine people.
2006The bipartisan Iraq Study Group concluded that President George W. Bush's war policies had failed in almost every regard, and said the situation in Iraq was "grave and deteriorating."

Current Birthdays
Dave Brubeck turns 90 years old today.

AP Photo/Alex Brandon Jazz musician Dave Brubeck turns 90 years old today.

65Ray LaHood
Secretary of transportation
65James Naughton
Actor
62Don Nickles
Former U.S. senator, R-Okla.
62JoBeth Williams
Actress
57Tom Hulce
Actor ("Amadeus")
55Steven Wright
Comedian
54Peter Buck
Rock musician (R.E.M.)
48Janine Turner
Actress ("Northern Exposure")
43Judd Apatow
Director ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Knocked Up")
34Colleen Haskell
TV personality ("Survivor")
34Lindsay Price
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Alfred Eisenstaedt
 
12/6/1898 - 8/23/1995
German photojournalist 

(Go to obit.)

50Baldassare Castiglione
12/6/1478 - 2/2/1529
Italian diplomat and writer

83Niccoli Zucchi
12/6/1586 - 5/21/1670
Italian astronomer

75Sophie von La Roche
12/6/1731 - 2/18/1807
German writer

55Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin
12/6/1805 - 6/13/1871
French magician

76(Friedrich) Max Muller
12/6/1823 - 10/28/1900
German orientalist scholar

82John Singleton Mosby
12/6/1833 - 5/30/1916
American Confederate guerrilla leader

65Evelyn Underhill
12/6/1875 - 6/15/1941
English mystical poet

31(Alfred) Joyce Kilmer
12/6/1886 - 7/30/1918
American poet

76Sir Osbert Sitwell
12/6/1892 - 5/4/1969
English writer

86Ira Gershwin
12/6/1896 - 8/17/1983
American lyricist of Broadway musicals and films

68James J. Braddock
12/6/1905 - 11/29/1974
American boxing champion

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