December 9  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
Revision as of 09:17, 4 December 2007
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)
(Art and culture)
← Previous diff
Revision as of 13:10, 7 July 2017
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)

Next diff →
Line 1: Line 1:
 +[[Image:The Sphinx by Maxime Du Camp, 1849.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[The Great Sphinx of Giza (photo by Maxime Du Camp)]], photo taken on [[December 9]], [[1849]]]]
{{Template}} {{Template}}
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
*[[1897]] - Activist [[Marguerite Durand]] founds the [[feminist]] daily [[newspaper]], ''[[La Fronde]]'' in [[Paris]]. *[[1897]] - Activist [[Marguerite Durand]] founds the [[feminist]] daily [[newspaper]], ''[[La Fronde]]'' in [[Paris]].
-*[[1905]] - In [[France]], the law [[1905 law on secularity|separating church and state]] is passed.+*[[1905]] - [[Salome (opera)|Salomé opera]] by Oscar Wilde first performed in Germany.
-*[[1917]] - In [[Palestine]], Allenby captures [[Jerusalem]].+*[[1946]] - The "[[Nuremberg trials|Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals]]" began with the "[[Doctors' trial]]", prosecuting [[physician|doctor]]s alleged to be involved in [[Nazi human experimentation|human experimentation]].
-*[[1922]] - [[Gabriel Narutowicz]] is announced the first president of [[Poland]].+*[[1964]] - ''[[A Love Supreme]]'' jazz album recorded by John Coltrane's quartet
-*[[1931]] - The [[Constituent Cortes]] approves the constitution which establishes the [[Second Spanish Republic]].+
-*[[1937]] - [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]: [[Battle of Nanjing]] - [[Imperial Japan|Japanese]] troops under the command of Lt. Gen. [[Asaka Yasuhiko]] launch an assault on the [[Republic of China|Chinese]] city of [[Nanjing]].+
-*[[1940]] - [[World War II]]: [[Operation Compass]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[India]]n troops under the command of Major-General [[Richard O'Connor]] attack [[Military history of Italy during World War II|Italian]] forces near [[Sidi Barrani]] in [[Egypt]].+
-*[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: The [[Republic of China]], [[Cuba]], [[Guatemala]], the [[Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea]], and the [[Philippine Commonwealth]], declare war on [[Germany]] and [[Japan]].+
-* 1941 - [[World War II]]: The [[19th Bombardment Group]] attack Japanese ships off the coast of [[Vigan]], [[Luzon]].+
-*[[1946]] - The "[[Subsequent Nuremberg Trials|Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals]]" began with the "[[Doctors' Trial]]", prosecuting [[physician|doctor]]s alleged to be involved in [[Nazi human experimentation|human experimentation]].+
-*[[1950]] - [[Harry Gold]] is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping [[Klaus Fuchs]] pass information about the [[Manhattan Project]] to the [[Soviet Union]]. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]].+
-*[[1953]] - [[Second Red Scare|Red Scare]]: [[General Electric]] announces that all [[communist]] employees will be discharged from the company+
-*[[1958]] - Red Scare: The [[John Birch Society]] founded in the [[United States]].+
-*[[1961]] - The trial of [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[Adolf Eichmann]] in [[Israel]] ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.+
-* 1961 - [[Tanganyika]] becomes independent from Britain.+
-[[Image:06pd2733.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Shuttle ''Discovery'' after launch of [[STS-116]].]]+
-*[[1968]] - [[NLS (computer system)|NLS]] (a system for which [[hypertext]] and the [[computer mouse]] were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in [[San Francisco]].+
-*[[1979]] - The eradication of the [[smallpox]] [[virus]] is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.+
-*[[1987]] - [[Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]: The [[First Intifada]] begins in the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[West Bank]]+
-*[[1990]] - [[Lech Wałęsa]] becomes the first directly elected president of [[Poland]].+
-*[[2003]] - A [[Red Square Bombing|blast]] in the center of [[Moscow]] kills six people and wounds several more.+
-*[[2006]] - [[Moscow]] suffers its [[Moscow hospital fire|worst fire since 1977]], killing 45 women in a drug addict rehabitational center.+
- +
==Births== ==Births==
-*[[1447]] - [[Chenghua]], Emperor of China (d. [[1487]]) 
-*[[1508]] - [[Gemma Frisius]], Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. [[1555]]) 
-*[[1561]] - Sir [[Edwin Sandys (American colonist)|Edwin Sandys]], British-born Virginian colonist (d. [[1629]]) 
-*[[1571]] - [[Metius]] (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1635]]) 
-*[[1579]] - [[Martin de Porres]], Peruvian saint (d. [[1639]]) 
-*[[1594]] - [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]] (d. [[1632]]) 
*[[1608]] - [[John Milton]], English poet (d. [[1674]]) *[[1608]] - [[John Milton]], English poet (d. [[1674]])
-*[[1610]] - [[Baldassare Ferri]], Italian castrato (d. [[1680]])+*[[1901]] - [[Ödön von Horváth]], German writer (''Youth Without God'') (d. [[1938]])
-*[[1652]] - [[Augustus Quirinus Rivinus]], German physician (d. [[1723]])+*[[1902]] - [[John Willie]], fetish photographer and bondage artist. (d. [[1962]])
-*[[1667]] - [[William Whiston]], English mathematician (d. [[1752]])+*[[1923]] - [[Ennio de Concini]], Italian screenwriter and film director (''Divorce, Italian Style'') (d. 1962)
-*[[1748]] - [[Claude Louis Berthollet]], French chemist (d. [[1822]])+*[[1927]] - [[Pierre Henry]], French composer (d. 2017)
-*[[1751]] - [[Maria Luisa of Parma]], queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. [[1819]])+*[[1929]] - [[John Cassavetes]], American actor and director (d. 1989)
-*[[1787]] - [[John Dobson (architect)|John Dobson]], British architect+*[[1932]] - [[Donald Byrd ]], American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter (d. 2013)
-*[[1806]] - [[Jean-Olivier Chénier]], French Canadian physician and [[Patriote movement|Patriote]] (d. [[1838]])+
-*[[1837]] - [[Émile Waldteufel]], French composer (d. [[1915]])+
-*[[1842]] - [[Peter Kropotkin]], Russian anarchist (d. [[1921]])+
-*[[1847]] - [[George Grossmith]], English actor (d. [[1912]])+
-*[[1850]] - [[Emma Abbott]], American soprano (d. [[1891]])+
-*[[1868]] - [[Fritz Haber]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1934]])+
-*[[1871]] - [[Joe Kelley]], American baseball player (d. [[1943]])+
-*[[1876]] - [[Berton Churchill]], American actor (d. [[1940]])+
-*[[1882]] - [[Joaquín Turina]], Spanish composer (d. [[1949]])+
-*[[1883]] - [[Nikolai Luzin]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1950]])+
-*[[1886]] - [[Clarence Birdseye]], American frozen food manufacturer (d. [[1956]])+
-*[[1889]] - [[Hannes Kolehmainen]], Finnish Olympic gold medalist (d. [[1966]])+
-*[[1891]] - [[Maksim Bahdanovič]], Belarusian poet (d. [[1917]])+
-*[[1895]] - [[Conchita Supervía]], Spanish opera singer (d. [[1936]])+
-*[[1897]] - [[Hermione Gingold]], British actress (d. [[1987]])+
-*[[1898]] - [[Emmett Kelly]], American circus clown (d. [[1979]])+
-*[[1899]] - [[Jean de Brunhoff]], French author (d. [[1937]])+
-*[[1900]] - [[Albert Weisbord]], American labor organizer (d. [[1977]])+
-*[[1901]] - [[Carol Dempster]], American actress (d. [[1991]])+
-* 1901 - [[Odon von Horvath|Ödön von Horváth]], Hungarian-born writer (d. [[1938]])+
-* 1901 - [[Jean Mermoz]], French pilot (d. [[1936]])+
-*[[1902]] - [[Margaret Hamilton]], American actress (d. [[1985]])+
-*[[1905]] - [[Dalton Trumbo]], American writer (d. [[1976]])+
-*[[1906]] - [[Grace Murray Hopper]], American computer pioneer (d. [[1992]])+
-*[[1909]] - [[Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.]], American actor (d. [[2000]])+
-*[[1911]] - [[Broderick Crawford]], American actor (d. [[1986]])+
-* 1911 - [[Ryūzō Sejima]], Japanese educator (d. [[2007]]) +
-*[[1912]] - [[Tip O'Neill]], [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (d. [[1994]])+
-*[[1914]] - [[Frances Reid]], American actress+
-*[[1915]] - [[Elisabeth Schwarzkopf]], German-born soprano (d. [[2006]])+
-*[[1916]] - [[Kirk Douglas]], American actor+
-*[[1917]] - [[James Rainwater]], [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1986]])+
-*[[1918]] - [[Jerome Beatty Jr.]], American author+
-*[[1919]] - [[William Lipscomb]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate+
-*[[1920]] - [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], [[List of Presidents of the Italian Republic|President of the Italian Republic]]+
-*[[1922]] - [[Redd Foxx]], American comedian (d. [[1991]])+
-*[[1925]] - [[Dina Merrill]], American actress+
-*[[1926]] - [[Henry Way Kendall]], [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1999]])+
-* 1926 - [[Jan Kresadlo|Jan Křesadlo]], Czech writer (d. [[1995]])+
-*[[1927]] - [[Pierre Henry]], French composer+
-*[[1928]] - [[Dick Van Patten]], American actor+
-* 1928 - [[André Milhoux]], Belgian racing driver+
-*[[1929]] - [[John Cassavetes]], American actor and director (d. [[1989]])+
-* 1929 - [[Bob Hawke]], 23rd [[Prime Minister of Australia]]+
-*[[1930]] - [[Buck Henry]], American actor+
-*[[1931]] - [[Ladislav Smoljak]], Czech actor+
-* 1931 - [[William Reynolds (actor)|William Reynolds]], American actor +
-*[[1933]] - [[Morton Downey Jr.]], American talk show host (d. [[2001]])+
-*[[1934]] - Dame [[Judi Dench]], British actress+
-* 1934 - [[Junior Wells]], American musician (d. [[1998]])+
-*[[1937]] - [[Darwin Joston]], American actor (d. [[1998]])+
-*[[1938]] - [[Deacon Jones]], American football player+
-* 1938 - [[David Houston (singer)|David Houston]], American country music singer (d. [[1993]])+
-*[[1941]] - [[Beau Bridges]], American actor+
-* 1941 - [[Dan Hicks (singer)|Dan Hicks]], American musician+
-*[[1942]] - [[Billy Bremner]], Scottish footballer (d. [[1997]])+
-* 1942 - [[Dick Butkus]], American football player+
-*[[1943]] - [[Pit Martin]], [[National Hockey League]] player+
-*[[1944]] - [[Ki Longfellow]], American novelist+
-* 1944 - [[Neil Innes]], British singer[[Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]]+
-* 1944 - [[Bob O'Connor]], American politician+
-*[[1945]] - [[Matti Mäntylä]], Finnish actor+
-*[[1946]] - [[Sonia Gandhi]], Italian-born Indian politician+
-*[[1947]] - [[Tom Daschle]], American politician+
-* 1947 - [[Jaak Jõerüüt]], Soviet-born Estonian politician+
-*[[1948]] - [[Dennis Dunaway]], American musician+
-*[[1949]] - [[Tom Kite]], American golfer+
-*[[1950]] - [[Joan Armatrading]], West Indian-born British singer+
-*[[1952]] - [[Michael Dorn]], American actor+
-* 1952 - [[Liaqat Baloch]], Pakistani politician+
*[[1953]] - [[John Malkovich]], American actor *[[1953]] - [[John Malkovich]], American actor
-* 1953 - [[Monique Miller]], French Canadian actress+*[[1962]] - [[Juan Atkins]], American musician
-*[[1954]] - [[Herman Finkers]], Dutch comedian+
-*[[1957]] - [[Donny Osmond]], American singer and actor+
-*[[1958]] - [[Rikk Agnew]], American guitar player ([[The Adolescents]])+
-* 1958 - [[Nick Seymour]], Australian bassist ([[Crowded House]])+
-*[[1960]] - [[Juan Samuel]], Dominican baseball player+
-*[[1961]] - [[David Anthony Higgins]], American actor+
-* 1961 - [[Joe Lando]], American actor+
-*[[1962]] - [[Felicity Huffman]], American actress+
-*[[1963]] - [[Masako, Crown Princess of Japan]]+
-*[[1964]] - [[Paul Landers]], German guitarist ([[Rammstein]])+
-*[[1965]] - [[Joe Ausanio]], American baseball player+
-* 1965 - [[Vecepia Towery]], American ''[[Survivor (US TV series)|Survivor]]'' contestant+
-*[[1966]] - [[Kirsten Gillibrand]], American politician+
-* 1966 - [[Toby Huss]], American actor+
-*[[1967]] - [[Joshua Bell]], American violinist+
-* 1967 - [[Gheorghe Popescu]], Romanian footballer+
-*[[1968]] - [[Kurt Angle]], American wrestler+
-* 1968 - [[Brian Bell (musician)|Brian Bell]], American guitarist ([[Weezer]])+
-* 1968 - [[Dave Harold]], English snooker player+
-*[[1969]] - [[Jakob Dylan]], American singer ([[The Wallflowers]])+
-* 1969 - [[Bixente Lizarazu]], [[France national football team|French]] footballer+
-* 1969 - [[Sebastian Spence]], Canadian actor+
-*[[1971]] - [[Petr Nedved]], [[National Hockey League]] player +
-*[[1972]] - [[Tre Cool]], German-born American drummer ([[Green Day]])+
-* 1972 - [[Reiko Aylesworth]], American actress+
-* 1972 - [[Fabrice Santoro]], Tahitian-born French tennis player+
-*[[1974]] - [[Canibus]], American rapper+
-*[[1975]] - [[Dino Morea]], Indian actor+
-*[[1976]] - [[Chris Booker (baseball player)|Chris Booker]], American baseball player+
-*[[1977]] - [[Saskia Garel]], Canadian actress+
-* 1977 - [[Imogen Heap]], British singer and songwriter+
-*[[1978]] - [[Jesse Metcalfe]], American actor+
-*[[1979]] - [[Olivia Lufkin]], Japanese singer+
-*[[1980]] - [[Ryder Hesjedal]], Canadian cyclist+
-*[[1981]] - [[Mardy Fish]], American tennis player+
-* 1981 - [[Diya Mirza]], Indian actress+
-*[[1982]] - [[Tamilla Abassova]], Russian cyclist+
-*[[1983]] - [[Dariusz Dudka]], Polish footballer+
-*[[1983]] - [[Jermaine Beckford]], English footballer+
-*[[1990]] - [[LaFee]], German singer+
-<!-- +
-Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. +
-Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.+
-If there are multiple people in the same birth year, put them in alphabetical order.+
-Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. -->+
- +
==Deaths== ==Deaths==
-*[[1165]] - King [[Malcolm IV of Scotland]]+*[[1964]] - [[Edith Sitwell]], British poet and critic (b. [[1887]])
-*[[1437]] - [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1368]])+*[[1991]] - [[Berenice Abbott ]], American photographer (b. [[1898]])
-*[[1544]] - [[Teofilo Folengo]], Italian poet (b. [[1491]])+
-*[[1565]] - [[Pope Pius IV]] (b. [[1499]])+
-*[[1603]] - [[William Watson (priest)|William Watson]], English conspirator (b. [[1559]])+
-*[[1625]] - [[Ubbo Emmius]], Dutch historian and geographer (b. [[1547]])+
-*[[1636]] - [[Fabian Birkowski]], Polish writer (b. [[1566]])+
-*[[1641]] - [[Anthony van Dyck]], Flemish painter (b. [[1599]])+
-*[[1669]] - [[Pope Clement IX]] (b. [[1600]])+
-*[[1674]] - [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], English statesman and historian (b. [[1609]])+
-*[[1692]] - [[William Mountfort]], English actor and dramatist+
-*[[1706]] - King [[Peter II of Portugal]] (b. [[1648]])+
-*[[1718]] - [[Vincenzo Coronelli]], Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. [[1650]])+
-*[[1793]] - [[Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac]], French aristocrat (b. [[1749]])+
-*[[1798]] - [[Johann Reinhold Forster]], German botanist (b. [[1729]])+
-*[[1830]] - [[Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher]], Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. [[1757]])+
-*[[1854]] - [[Almeida Garrett]], Portuguese writer (b. [[1799]])+
-*[[1858]] - [[Robert Baldwin]], Canadian politician (b. [[1804]])+
-*[[1887]] - [[Mahmadu Lamine]], Senegalese marabout and military leader+
-*[[1894]] - [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1821]])+
-*[[1916]] - [[Natsume Sōseki]], Japanese novelist (b. [[1867]])+
-*[[1930]] - [[Rube Foster|Andrew "Rube" Foster]], American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (b. [[1879]])+
-*[[1937]] - [[Nils Gustaf Dalén]], Swedish physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1869]])+
-*[[1941]] - [[Dmitry Merezhkovsky]], Russian writer and philosopher (b. [[1865]])+
-*[[1955]] - [[Hermann Weyl]], German mathematician (b. [[1885]])+
-*[[1964]] - Dame [[Edith Sitwell]], British poet and critic (b. [[1887]])+
-*[[1965]] - [[Branch Rickey]], American baseball commissioner (b. [[1884]])+
-*[[1970]] - Sir [[Feroz Khan Noon]], Prime Minister of [[Pakistan]]+
-*[[1971]] - [[Ralph Bunche]], American diplomat and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1904]])+
-* 1971 - [[Sergey Konenkov]], Russian sculptor (b. [[1874]])+
-*[[1972]] - [[Louella Parsons]], American gossip columnist (b. [[1881]])+
-*[[1975]] - [[William A. Wellman]], American movie director (b. [[1896]])+
-*[[1979]] - [[Fulton J. Sheen]], American archbishop and television preacher ([[Life is Worth Living]]) (b. [[1895]])+
-*[[1981]] - [[Daniel Faulkner]], [[Philadelphia]] [[police]] officer (b. [[1955]]) +
-*[[1982]] - [[Leon Jaworski]], [[Watergate scandal]] special prosecutor (b. [[1905]])+
-*[[1984]] - [[Razzle|Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley]], British drummer ([[Hanoi Rocks]]) (b. [[1960]])+
-*[[1990]] - [[Mike Mazurki]], Ukrainian-born professional wrestler and actor (b. [[1907]])+
-*[[1992]] - [[Vincent Gardenia]], American stage, film and television actor (b. [[1922]])+
-*[[1993]] - [[Danny Blanchflower]], Northern Irish footballer and football manager (b. [[1926]])+
-*[[1995]] - [[Toni Cade Bambara]], American author (b. [[1939]])+
-* 1996 - [[Patty Donahue]], American singer ([[The Waitresses]]) (b. [[1956]])+
-*[[1996]] - [[Mary Leakey]], British archeologist and anthropologist (b. [[1913]])+
-* 1996 - [[Alain Poher]], French politician (b. [[1909]])+
-*[[1998]] - [[Shaughnessy Cohen]], Canadian politician (b. [[1948]])+
-* 1998 - [[Archie Moore]], American boxer and World [[Light-Heavyweight]] Champion (b. [[1913]])+
-*[[2001]] - [[Michael Carver]], British Lord Field Marshall and Baron and strong speaker against the Trident program.+
-*[[2002]] - [[Mary Hansen]], Australian guitarist and singer ([[Stereolab]]) (b. [[1966]])+
-* 2002 - [[Stan Rice]], American painter, educator, and poet (b. [[1942]])+
-*[[2003]] - [[Paul Simon (politician)|Paul Simon]], U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. [[1928]])+
-*[[2004]] - [[David Brudnoy]], American radio personality (b. [[1940]])+
-* 2004 - [[Lea De Mae]], Czech actress (b. [[1976]])+
-*[[2005]] - [[György Sándor]], Hungarian pianist (b. [[1912]])+
-* 2005 - [[Robert Sheckley]], American author (b. [[1928]])+
- +
-== Notes ==+
-Juan Atkins +
-John Willie +
-Donald Byrd +
-John Cassavetes +
-John Milton +
-Ödön von Horváth +
-John Malkovich +
-Salome (opera) +
-Berenice Abbott +
-Pierre Henry +
-Buck Henry +
-A Love Supreme +
-Edith Sitwell +
-Ennio de Concini +
{{GFDL}} {{GFDL}}

Revision as of 13:10, 7 July 2017

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Art and culture

Births

Deaths




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "December 9" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools