Historical Events
1673 - Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1966 - Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1968 - KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1979 - US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets
1996 - Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
Famous Birthdays
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist, born in Johnstown, New York (d. 1902)
1833 - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
1908 - Shamus Culhane, animator
1920 - Richard Quine, actor/director (Clay Pigeon), born in Detroit, Michigan
1944 - Booker T Jones, organist [or Dec 11]
1964 - Jakob Hlasek, Czech, tennis star
Famous Deaths
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1944 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
1991 - Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60
1991 - Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1996 - Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90
1996 - Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72
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