Today in History
Listings for Monday, December 19, 2022.
Birthdays:
- 1783 C.J. Brianchon --1864
- 1790 Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
- 1849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie.
- 1852 Albert Michelson, took the measure of light, (Nobel 1907).
- 1902 Ralph Richardson
- 1920 David Susskind
- 1933 Cicely Tyson
- 1934 Al Kaline
- 1944 Tim Reid
- 1946 Robert Urich
- 1960 Daryl Hannah
- 1963 Jennifer Beals
- 1972 Alyssa Milano
Events:
- Underdog Day
- 1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
- 1732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
- 1777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
- 1842 US recognizes the independence of Hawaii
- 1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
- 1932 the BBC begins transmitting overseas.
- 1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks the French.
- 1971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
- 1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
That's all for today.
