Today in History: What Happened on This Date
537 Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) inaugurated by the Emperor Justinian I as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral
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| Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey |
1657 "Flushing Remonstrance" petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship
1814 Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's makeshift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
1831 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, departs from Plymouth.
It will eventually visit the Galapagos Islands. It was during this 5-year long voyage that the English naturalist worked on his Theory of Evolution. He published the evidence supporting it in his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species.
1845 Anesthesia used for the first time for childbirth
Dr. Crawford W. Long, an American physician, gave ether to his wife during the birth of their second child. The event revolutionalized the use of anesthesia in medicine and surgery.
1862 Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky
1892 Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC)
1907 Aging emperor Francis Joseph warned military man Don Miguel Braganza that he would be exiled if he did not stop plotting to overthrow the government of Portugal. In an interview with a reporter Braganza boasted about his seditious plans and as a result the emperor summoned him immediately.
1913 Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago.
1915 US Iron and Steel workers begin a 3-week strike in Ohio for a eight-hour-day; they are successful as the US needs steel for armaments
1918 Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919 begins
The revolt against the Germans began in Poznań after a speech by the Polish Prime Minster, Ignacy Paderewski. The uprising led to newer territory being added to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles.
1921 - U.S.A. -- Tacoa Arica
Chile and Peruvian officials were meeting in Washington to try resolving their disputes. One of the main issues was over the fate of Tacoa Arica.
1923 Emperor Hirohito of Japan narrowly evades an assassination attempt by a Korean independence activist, Lee Bong-chang
1924 Albania is declared a dictatorship under Ahmed Beg Zofu
1926 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WW I
1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat" premieres in New York City
1932 Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City
Opening with a spectacular stage show, featuring Ray Bolger and Martha Graham. The stage measures 66.5 feet (20 m) deep and 144 feet (44 m) wide and has the largest Wurlitzer pipe organ built for a movie theater. The Radio City Music Hall is also home to the women's precision dance team known as The Rockettes.
1932 The internal passport system, previously denounced by Vladimir Lenin as one of the worst stigmas of tsarist backwardness and despotism, was reinstated in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin.
1934 Shah of Persia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi declares Persia now Iran
1936 - Mexico -- Agrarian Reform law
Workers and peasants, the neglected masses, were benefited by President Lacaro Curdenas's Agrarian Reform law. Wealthy cotton areas were taken from the rich and given to the peasants. His Seventh Day Law paid workers seven days a week.
1937 Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
1941 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 7th Symphony in Siberia
1943 - Norway -- World War II
Nazi battleship, The Scharnhorst, was sunk by the British off the coast of Norway. The battleship was a 28,000 ton vessel that probably intended to strike a convoy near Murmansk.
1943 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government
1943 Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower & Bedell Smith
1945 International Monetary Fund formally established by 29 member countries based on ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes
1945 The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
1949 - Indonesia -- Independence
Indonesia gains it's independence from the Netherlands after 400 years of Dutch Rule and 4 years of revolution and struggle. In August 1945, Sukarno signed the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, which was formally accepted and recognized by the Dutch in 1949.
1954 - France -- Germany To Join NATO
French lawmakers were saddled with the thorny problem of whether or not to allow West Germany to rearm and join NATO.
1960 - France -- Atomic Bomb Test
France explodes it's third atomic bomb test in the Sahara desert in Africa.
1964 The Supremes 1st appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" singing "Come See About Me"
1967 Leonard Cohen releases his debut album "Songs of Leonard Cohen" on Columbia Records
1967 - Cambodia -- Anti US
Prince Norodom of Cambodia rejected U.S. plans to close the Vietnam border to communists and accused the U.S. of interfering in Indo-Chinese affairs. U.S. and Cambodia did not have regular diplomatic channels, but usually communicated through Austria.
1972 New North Korean constitution comes into effect
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - India -- Coal Mine Explosion
A coal mine explosion followed by a flood at the Chasnala Colliery in Dhanbad, India kills over 350.
1977 - England -- Star Wars
The long awaited film Star Wars which has been showing in the US since June, has had thousands of people are flocking to cinemas in the UK, many queued in London's Dominion, and Leicester Square cinemas from early in the morning waiting to get the few tickets that have not been pre booked for months.
1978 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship as King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
1978 CBS Television's premiere of its version of "Les Miserables", starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins
1979 President Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan is ousted and murdered in a coup backed by the Soviet Union, beginning a war that will last more than 10 years.
1983 - U.S.A. -- Recession More Jobs Lost
With the recession continuing to effect manufacturing in the United States. U.S. Steel announces that it would reduce its steel making capacity by roughly 20 percent laying off a further 4,600 bringing the total lay-offs for the year to 15,400.
1983 President Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines.
1994 Rwanda - Blood Bath
When Rwanda's president was killed in a plane crash the country was plunged into a blood bath and genocide. The Hutu majority slaughtered the Tutsis and a half a million people lay dead. A missionary exclaimed, "There are no devils left in hell. They are all in Rwanda."
2002 - North Korea -- Nuclear Program
North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said it would restart producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.
2004 Radiation reaches Earth from the brightest extrasolar event ever witnessed, an explosion of magnetar SGR 1806-20.
2006 - Israel -- Palestinians No To Peace
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, held out an olive branch of peace to the Palestinians promising land, release of prisoners, reduction in check points, and other concessions. However Palestinian extremists in Gaza fired 2 rockets into Israel.
2007 - Pakistan -- Benazir Bhutto assassinated
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated in Pakistan by suicide attack. Bhutto, who was the first woman Prime Minister of an Islamic state, was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi when the gunman shot her in the neck and set off a bomb. At least twenty other people died in the attack, and several more were injured.
2007 After Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of Kenya's presidential elections, rioting begins in Mombasa, precipitating an economic, humanitarian and political crisis.
2011 - Israel -- Israelis Protest Against Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Extremism
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated in Pakistan by suicide 27th December, 2011 : Thousands of Israelis gathers in Beit Shemesh to protest against ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremism. The protests came after a young girl stated she had faced harassment while on her way to school. The protests were also over concern that some ultra-Orthodox groups in the city were trying to segregate men and women. Protesters also had the support of Israel's president who said that the protests were necessary to defend the majority of Israelis against a minority trying to change the country.
Born This Day In History 27th December
Celebrating Birthday's Today
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| Actress and Singer Marlene Dietrich |
Marlene Dietrich
Born: 27th December 1901 Berlin-Schöneberg, German Empire
Died: May 6th 1992 Paris, France
Known For :
Marlene Dietrich was born Marie Magdalene Dietrich in Germany but quickly moved to Holywood in the early 1930's where she began her American acting and singing career, her movies included Morocco, Dishonored, Destry Rides Again, Touch of Evil, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Stage Fright, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress, and The Devil is a Woman. Her singing voice was distinct as her well known signature song "Falling in Love Again" from the 1930 Movie "The Blue Angel" featured in our video today shows. Marlene Dietrich became an American citizen in 1939 and a vocal opponent of the German Nazi Regime and she entertained American troops on the front lines.
- 1555 Johann Arndt, German Lutheran theologian and author of books on devotional Christianity, born in Edderitz, Anhalt-Köthen, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1621)
- 1571 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (discovered laws of planetary motion), born in Weil der Stadt, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1630)
- 1654 Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician known for his contributions to calculus, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1705)
- 1822 Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (invented pasteurization), born in Dole, France (d. 1895)
- 1823 Mackenzie Bowell, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (1894-96), born in Rickinghall, England (d. 1917)
- 1829 Hinton Helper, southern abolitionist who wrote The Impending Crisis.
- 1883 Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and steel magnate, born in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia (d. 1979)
- 1913 Elizabeth Smart, Canadian author (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept), born in Ottawa, Ontario
- 1919 Major General Charles Sweeney, the pilot of Bocks Car, the B-29 that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1948 Gérard Depardieu French actor
- 1980 Antonio Cesaro Swiss wrestler
Deaths On This Day – 27 December
- 1076 Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev
- 1836 Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of the US State of Texas, dies at 43
- 1923 Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre], engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91
- 1958 Harry Warner Polish/American businessman, co-founded Warner Bros.
- 1972 Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister (Nobel Peace Prize 1957), dies at 75
- 1979 Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician (President of Afghanistan, 1979), killed by Russian forces in a coup during Soviet invasion at 50
- 2007 Benazir Bhutto, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 1st female leader of a Muslim nation, assassinated in Rawalpindi by a suicide bomber at 54
- 1997 Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
- 2007 Benazir Bhutto, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 1st female leader of a Muslim nation, assassinated in Rawalpindi by a suicide bomber at 54
Today's Weddings & Divorces in History
- 1925 Inventor George Gallup (24) weds Ophelia Smith Miller
- 1950 Actor Henry Fonda (45) weds socialite and third wife Susan Blanchard (22) in New York City
- 1953 Broadcasting pioneer Roone Arledge (22) weds Joan Heise at St. Frances de Chantal Parish in Wantagh, New York
- 2011 "New Girl" actress Zooey Deschanel (31) divorces "Death Cab for Cutie" singer Ben Gibbard (35) due to irreconcilable differences
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