Events 1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed 1860 - South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States 1915 - Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli 1917 - Cheka, first Soviet secret police, founded 1952 - United States Air Force C-124 crashs and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87 1960 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed 1989 - United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega 1995 - NATO begins peacekeping in Bosnia 1995 - An American Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160 1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples 2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader. Births 1579 (baptized) - John Fletcher, playwright (d. 1625) 1629 - Pieter de Hooch, painter (d. 1684) 1792 - Nicolas Charlet, painter (d. 1845) 1805 - Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869) 1833 - Samuel Mudd, physician, possible conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1883) 1856 - Ferdinand Avenarius, author (d. 1923) 1860 - Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904) 1868 - Harvey Firestone, automobile pioneer (d. 1938) 1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965) 1886 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis star (d. 1974) 1890 - Yvonne Arnaud, actress 1893 - Charlotte Bühler, psychologist 1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, Australian politician (d. 1978) 1898 - Irene Dunne, actress (d. 1990) 1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor (d. 1967) 1902 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942) 1902 - Max Lerner, American educator (d. 1992) 1902 - Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989) 1922 - George Roy Hill, film director 1923 - James Leasor, writer, mystery 1924 - Friederike Mayröcker, author 1926 - Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), UK politician 1926 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, politician 1930 - Noel Ferrier, producer and actress 1942 - Bob Hayes, track and field star, American football star (d. 2002) 1946 - Uri Geller, illusionist 1952 - Jenny Agutter, actress 1955 - Lonesome Bob, singer, songwriter 1957 - Billy Bragg, singer, songwriter 1957 - Mike Watt, bassist 1959 - Tracey Ullman, actress, comedienne Deaths 1939 - Nazi Captain Hans Langsdorff (suicide) 1954 - James Hilton, author 1961 - Moss Hart, author 1968 - John Steinbeck, writer 1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish prime minister (assassination) 1973 - Bobby Darin, singer 1976 - Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1982 - Artur Rubinstein, musician 1994 - Dean Rusk, former United States Secretary of State 1996 - Carl Sagan, astronomer, writer 1999 - Hank Snow, country music singer See Also December 19 - December 21 - November 20 - January 20 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n
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December 19 - December 21 - November 20 - January 20 -- listing of all days
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