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100 years anniversary | ||||
29 Dec 1924 | Joe Allbritton, American businessman and publisher, founded the Allbritton Communications Company (d. 2012) | |||
29 Dec 1924 | Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
29 Dec 1949 | 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct) | |||
29 Dec 1949 | Hungary nationalized its industries | |||
29 Dec 1949 | Syed Kirmani, Indian cricketer and actor | |||
29 Dec 1949 | David Topliss, English rugby player and coach (d. 2008) | |||
29 Dec 1949 | Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883) | |||
29 Dec 1949 | KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule. | |||
29 Dec 1949 | WW2 | Khabarovsk War Crime Trials concluded with all 12 accused members of the Japanese Kwantung Army found guilty and given prison sentences. | ||
29 Dec 1949 | Angel Tompkins actress (Bees, Prime Cut, Murphy's Law) | |||
29 Dec 1949 | Syed Kirmani cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer) | |||
29 Dec 1949 | 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport CT) | |||
29 Dec 1949 | Hungary nationalized its industries | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
29 Dec 1974 | James Darling: Linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles) | |||
29 Dec 1974 | Tom Knight: Cornerback (Arizona Cardinals) | |||
29 Dec 1974 | Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress and producer | |||
29 Dec 1974 | Mekhi Phifer, American actor and producer | |||
29 Dec 1974 | Richie Sexson, American baseball player | |||
29 Dec 1974 | Ryan Shore, Canadian composer and producer | |||
29 Dec 1974 | Brad Hodge cricketer (promising Victorian middle-order batsman) | |||
29 Dec 1974 | James Darling linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles) | |||
29 Dec 1974 | Tom Knight cornerback (Arizona Cardinals) | |||
29 Dec 1974 | Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town" premieres in New York NY | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
29 Dec 1999 | Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906) | |||
29 Dec 1999 | UK music paper The Melody Maker published it's Music of the Millennium Poll of albums placing The Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead' at Number 1. | |||
29 Dec 1999 | Three ferrets named Beckham, Posh Spice and Baby Spice were used to lay power cables for a rock concert being held in Greenwich, London, England, (workers were not allowed to dig up the turf at the Royal Park). Organizers found that rods could not push the cables through the tiny tunnels, which frequently bend and dog-leg. The ferrets were eased into tiny nylon harnesses with wires which where then attached to a rope, the animals ran into a series of ducts which were under the stage like rabbit runs, leading the cables with them. The ferrets instinctively make for any hole in the ground and are enticed to the end of the duct by a slab of smelly meat. The New Years Eve concert featured Simply Red, Eurythmics and Bryan Ferry. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
29 Dec 2004 | Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) | |||
29 Dec 2004 | Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1915) | |||
29 Dec 2004 | Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress and screenwriter (b. 1947) | |||
29 Dec 2004
Julius Axelrod |
death Julius Axelrod Died 29 Dec 2004 at age 92 (born 30 May 1912). American biochemist and pharmacologist who (with British biophysicist Sir Bernard Katz and Swedish physiologist Ulf von Euler) received the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Axelrod investigated the mechanism of formation of the hormone noradrenaline, as an important nerve impulse transmitter, specifically his discovery and isolation of the enzyme he called catechol-o-methyl transferase, which degrades chemical neurotransmitters when no longer needed. In effect this resets the nerve to nerve connections ready to transmit the next impulse that arrives. This helped the search for treatment of nervous and mental illnesses. He studied certain psychotropic drugs on the nervous system and the specific route taken by injected drugs. |
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Julius Axelrod, (b. 1912), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology for work with catecholamine neurotransmitters. | ||||
15 years anniversary | ||||
29 Dec 2009 | Akmal Shaikh, Pakistani-English businessman and drug trafficker (b. 1956) | |||
29 Dec 2009 | "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American football player and wrestler (b. 1960) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
29 Dec 2014 | Saiyid Hamid, Indian academic and diplomat (b. 1920) | |||
29 Dec 2014 | Hari Harilela, Indian-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922) | |||
29 Dec 2014 | Odd Iversen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1945) | |||
29 Dec 2014 | Jenny Pat, Hong Kong illustrator and art dealer (b. 1981) | |||
29 Dec 2014 | Juanito Remulla, Sr., Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (b. 1933) |