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100 years anniversary | ||||
23 Dec 1924 | Floyd Kalber: Omaha, Nebraska -- Newscaster (NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973) | |||
23 Dec 1924 | Bob Kurland, American basketball player and politician (d. 2013) | |||
23 Dec 1924 | Floyd Kalber Omaha NE, newscaster (NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973) | |||
23 Dec 1924 |
Australopithecus skull In 1924, Raymond Dart completed his work removing the first fossil skull of Australopithecus from its matrix of rock. Being one of "missing links" in man's evolution, Dart had taken exquisite care during 73 days to separate skull and stone, at work in his laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dart with his students made the find in the Taung limestone works in the Harts Valley of Bechuanaland. When an endocranial cast was found, at first it seemed to be just another primate skull. Then, Dart noticed how amazingly close to human it looked. Dart had discovered the Taung child, who was only three years old at the time of death. He named it Australopithecus africanus. (Australis means "south" and pithecus means "ape"). |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
23 Dec 1949 | Luther Grosvenor: Rocker (Spooky Tooth) | |||
23 Dec 1949 | Adrian Belew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (King Crimson, Tom Tom Club, and The Bears) | |||
23 Dec 1949 | Reinhold Weege, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2012) | |||
23 Dec 1949 | birth Ariel Bender, guitarist, Mott The Hoople, (1972 UK No.3 single 'All The Young Dudes'), Spooky Tooth. | |||
23 Dec 1949 | birth Adrian Belew, American guitarist and singer, worked with King Crimson and David Bowie. | |||
23 Dec 1949 | Luther Grosvenor rocker (Spooky Tooth) | |||
23 Dec 1949 | Susan Lucci Scarsdale NY, actress (All My Children, Mafia Princess) | |||
23 Dec 1949 | Wally Edwards cricketer (three Tests Australia vs England 1974) | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
23 Dec 1974 | "Good News" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 16 performances | |||
23 Dec 1974 | Agustín Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer and politician | |||
23 Dec 1974 | Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Nasum and Genocide Superstars) (d. 2004) | |||
23 Dec 1974 | birth Montsho Eshe, Arrested Development, (1992 UK No.2 single 'People Everyday'). | |||
23 Dec 1974 | "Good News" opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances | |||
23 Dec 1974 | Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's Michelangelo-liederen | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
23 Dec 1999 | George Harrison's home in Maui in the Hawaiian Islands was broken into by Cristin Keleher, who cooked a frozen pizza, drank beer from the fridge, started some laundry and phoned her mother in New Jersey. Keleher was arrested and charged with burglary and theft. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
23 Dec 2004 | P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921) | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
23 Dec 2009 | Robert L. Howard, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1939) | |||
23 Dec 2009 | Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan general and politician (b. 1910) | |||
23 Dec 2009 | Edward Schillebeeckx, Belgian theologian and academic (b. 1914) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
23 Dec 2014 | K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930) | |||
23 Dec 2014 | Jo Jo Benson, American singer (b. 1938) | |||
23 Dec 2014 | Mike Elliott, English comedian and actor (b. 1946) | |||
23 Dec 2014 | Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944) | |||
23 Dec 2014 | Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (b. 1924) | |||
23 Dec 2014 | Jeremy Lloyd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1930) |