Remitimos el formato ilustrado del
BOLETÍN INFORMATIVO ELECTRÓNICO
del
Centro de Estudios sobre
Bibliotecología de la Sociedad Argentina de Información
ISSN 1667-6351
No. 85 (diciembre de 2011)
1818 | Illinois was admitted to the union as the 21st state. |
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1828 | Andrew Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States. |
1947 | "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway. |
1948 | The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm. |
1964 | Police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley who had stormed the administration buildingthe previous day and staged a massive sit-in. |
1965 | The album "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles was released. |
1967 | Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant. |
1967 | The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago. |
1979 | Eleven people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum before a rock concert by the Who. |
1989 | East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party's Central Committee resigned. |
1997 | South Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy. |
1999 | Scientists failed to make contact with the Mars Polar Lander after it began its fiery descent toward the red planet; the spacecraft was presumed destroyed. |
2009 | Comcast and GE announced joint venture plans, with Comcast owning a 51 percent controlling stake in NBC Universal. |
1927 | Andy Williams, Singer, turns 84 |
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1930 | Jean-Luc Godard, Director, turns 81 |
1931 | Jaye P. Morgan, Singer ("The Gong Show"), turns 80 |
1941 | Mary Alice, Actress, turns 70 |
1948 | Ozzy Osbourne, Rock singer (Black Sabbath), turns 63 |
1960 | Daryl Hannah, Actress, turns 51 |
1968 | Brendan Fraser, Actor ("The Mummy" films), turns 43 |
1973 | Bruno Campos, Actor, turns 38 |
1973 | Holly Marie Combs, Actress ("Charmed"), turns 38 |
1980 | Anna Chlumsky, Actress ("My Girl" movies), turns 31 |
72 | Gilbert Stuart 12/3/1755 - 7/9/1828 American portrait painter |
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58 | George Brinton McClellan 12/3/1826 - 10/29/1885 American general |
77 | Cleveland Abbe 12/3/1838 - 10/28/1916 American meteorologist |
73 | Octavia Hill 12/3/1838 - 8/13/1912 English activist and leader of the British open-space movement |
56 | Charles Alfred Pillsbury 12/3/1842 - 9/17/1899 American flour miller and food products manufacturer |
68 | Ellen Swallow Richards 12/3/1842 - 3/30/1911 American chemist |
66 | Joseph Conrad 12/3/1857 - 8/3/1924 English novelist |
86 | Carl Koller 12/3/1857 - 3/21/1944 Czech-born American eye surgeon |
61 | Anton von Werbern 12/3/1883 - 9/15/1945 Austrian composer |
65 | Hayato Ikeda 12/3/1899 - 8/13/1965 Japanese prime minister (1960-4) |
66 | Richard Kuhn 12/3/1900 - 8/1/1967 German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner |
53 | John von Neumann 12/3/1903 - 2/8/1957 Hungarian-American mathematician |