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Events from History on December 12

xxxx : Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen
1098 : 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
1474 : Isabella crowns herself queen of Castili‰ & Aragon
1479 : Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
1524 : Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
1527 : Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
1653 : Barebone-parliament ends
1677 : Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin
1700 : Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar
1715 : Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund [NS=12/23]
1769 : Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1787 : Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
1791 : Bank of US opens
1792 : In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music
1792 : composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1800 : Washington DC established as capital of US
1822 : Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
1858 : 1st Canadian coins circulated (1›, 5›, 10› & 20›)
1862 : Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 : Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
1870 : Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
1871 : Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
1878 : Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
1884 : 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
1897 : Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
1897 : Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal
1898 : 1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania
1899 : 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
1899 : George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
1900 : National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing," composed
1901 : Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
1903 : Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
1904 : CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna," premieres in NYC
1906 : Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish govt member, appointed Sec of Commerce
1912 : R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly," premieres in NYC
1913 : "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1913 : Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
1915 : 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
1915 : Aristide Briand forms French war govt
1915 : Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1916 : Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
1917 : French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
1917 : Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb
1920 : Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse," premieres in Paris
1925 : Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
1925 : Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia
1925 : Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over
1926 : Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert
1928 : Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe," premieres in NYC
1930 : Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
1930 : Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
1930 : Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
1931 : Japanese Govt of Imukai forms
1932 : S N Behrmans "Biography," premieres in NYC
1932 : USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
1936 : Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1937 : Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River
1937 : NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1937 : in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
1939 : Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1940 : British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
1941 : European reservists on Java mobilizes
1941 : German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
1941 : Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
1942 : German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
1945 : Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
1946 : Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
1946 : Tide detergent introduced
1946 : UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
1947 : United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
1949 : AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
1950 : 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
1950 : Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule
1951 : Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1952 : Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
1953 : Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1955 : 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by Brit eng Christoper Cockerell
1957 : Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still
1957 : Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
1957 : US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
1957 : married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham
1958 : Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
1958 : Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur
1959 : UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
1961 : Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
1961 : Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 : Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron
1963 : Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
1963 : Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
1964 : Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
1964 : Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)
1965 : Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales)
1965 : Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155
1965 : Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC
1966 : US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
1967 : US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
1968 : Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
1968 : Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired
1968 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 : "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1969 : Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points)
1969 : Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed
1970 : Polish government proclaims price rise
1970 : Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
1970 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 : Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 & $10 silver coins)
1973 : San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
1975 : Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
1975 : Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill Pres Gerald Ford
1976 : QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
1977 : Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
1979 : Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
1979 : Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe
1980 : US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
1981 : "1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 37 performances
1981 : Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
1981 : Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
1982 : "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 perf
1982 : $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
1983 : A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait
1985 : 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
1985 : DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
1985 : NASA launches space vehicle S-207
1986 : David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 v England at Adelaide
1986 : James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in MSG
1986 : Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
1986 : South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1987 : Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
1987 : Rollermania at MSG, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
1988 : 3 trains collide in London, 40 die
1988 : NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
1988 : PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist
1988 : Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1990 : US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
1990 : US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
1991 : Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
1991 : Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community
1991 : Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
1991 : Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
1992 : 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami-Fla (QB)
1992 : 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
1992 : Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada
1992 : Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
1992 : NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
1993 : "Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances
1993 : "Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances
1993 : WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC
1995 : Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned
1995 : CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31
1995 : Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress
1995 : down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)
1996 : Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
1996 : Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou
1997 : Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris
1997 : Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's
1997 : Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
1997 : Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH
1997 : Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract
1997 : SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages
1997 : TWA 800 hearings end daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him

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