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100 years anniversary | ||||
13 Dec 1925 | Henry C Gordon: USAF / Astronaut (Dynasoar) | |||
13 Dec 1925 | Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and producer | |||
13 Dec 1925 | Dick Van Dyke West Plains MO, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show) | |||
13 Dec 1925 | Henry C Gordon USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
13 Dec 1950 | Wendie Malick: Actress (Just Shoot Me) | |||
13 Dec 1950 | James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Linda Bellos, English businesswoman and politician | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Wendie Malick, American model and actress | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Heather North, American actress | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Afemo Omilami, American actor | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Julia Slingo, English meteorologist and academic | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Tom Vilsack, American lawyer and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Agriculture | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902) | |||
13 Dec 1950 | birth Davy O'List, guitar, The Nice, (1968 UK No.21 single 'America'), Roxy Music, (1972 UK No.4 single 'Virginia Plain' plus 15 other UK Top 40 singles). | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Heather North Pasadena CA, actress (The Barefoot Executive) | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Davey O'List rocker (Roxy Music) | |||
13 Dec 1950 | Wendie Malick actress (Just Shoot Me) | |||
13 Dec 1950 | "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances | |||
13 Dec 1950 | James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial | |||
13 Dec 1950 | RELIGIOUS | American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'I think God is to be glorified by asking the impossible of Him.' | ||
13 Dec 1950
Julia Slingo |
birth Julia Slingo Julia Slingo, English meteorologist. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
13 Dec 1975 | Matt LeCroy: Anderson, South Carolina -- Baseball catcher (1996 Olympics - Bronze Medalist) | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Sarah Brady: Miss Universe - New Zealand (1996) | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Cyril Delevanti: Actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88 | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Hendrik Kruls: Dutch General / Chief Military Authority (1944-46), dies at 73 | |||
13 Dec 1975 | 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts) | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Australian Conservatives and Liberals win parliamentary election | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Roy Fredericks hits 169 vs. Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Bates Battaglia, American ice hockey player | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Tom DeLonge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blink-182, Angels & Airwaves, and Box Car Racer) | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Kostas Kiassos, Greek footballer | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player and coach | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Bahar Mert, Turkish volleyball player | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (b. 1889) | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Chicago started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Chicago IX-Chicago's Greatest Hits', the group's fifth No.1 album. | |||
13 Dec 1975 | birth Tom Delonge, Blink 182, (2000 UK No.2 single 'All The Small Things' 2001 US No.1 album 'Take Off Your...'). | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Matt LeCroy Anderson SC, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96) | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Sarah Brady Miss Universe-New Zealand (1996) | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Cyril Delevanti actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88 | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Hendrik Kruls Dutch general/chief military authority (1944-46), dies at 73 | |||
13 Dec 1975 | 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts) | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament | |||
13 Dec 1975 | Roy Fredericks hits 169 vs Australia at WACA, hundred in 71 balls | |||
13 Dec 1975 | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
13 Dec 2000 | The "Texas Seven" escape from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed. | |||
13 Dec 2000 | It was announced that after 74 years the UK rock weekly Melody Maker was to close down. The Christmas edition would be the last one then it would merge with the NME creating a more sizeable broad-based magazine. | |||
13 Dec 2000 | Sir Paul McCartney held his first-ever London book signing at Waterstone's in Piccadilly. Sir Paul was in the store to sign copies of his new book, Paul McCartney Paintings. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
13 Dec 2005 | Timothy Jordan II, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter (Jonezetta) (b. 1981) | |||
13 Dec 2005 | Stanley Williams, American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (b. 1953) | |||
13 Dec 2005 | A cheque signed by John Lennon made out to the Inland Revenue sold for £2,000 at a UK auction. It was sold by former madam Lindi St Clair, (formerly known as Miss Whiplash), after she decided she had no use for it. Clair who now runs a duck farm in Herefordshire had bought the cheque for £4,000 in 1988. It was signed by Lennon on 23rd January 1968 on a District Bank Limited form and made out for £6,946. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
13 Dec 2010 | James Dibble, Australian journalist (b. 1923) | |||
13 Dec 2010 | Takeshi Watabe, Japanese voice actor (b. 1936) | |||
13 Dec 2010 | Richard Holbrooke, American journalist and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1941) | |||
13 Dec 2010 | Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1942) | |||
13 Dec 2010 | Woolly Wolstenholme, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Barclay James Harvest) (b. 1947) |