Page 6: Historical Events In December - 11

1954  USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va on December - 11.   

1954  On December - 11 phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium   

1955  On this day in history franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51   

1956  On this day in history anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland   

1957  Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra on this day in history.   

1958  On December - 11 upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France   

1958  On this day in history 4th (last) Dutch govt of Drees falls   

1959  On December - 11 yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri   

1960  Black Sunday on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel   

1961  On this day in history elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 wks   

1961  On December - 11 jFK provides US military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam   

1961  On this day in history "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released   

1964  On this day in history percy Kilbride, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76   

1967  On this day in history beatles' Apple Music signs its first group-Grapefruit   

1967  On this day in history sST prototype "Concorde" first shown (France)   

1967  Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness in NYC on this day in history.   

1968  On this day in history the Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years.   

1968  On December - 11 nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59   

1969  On this day in history the secretary of the Moscow writer's union declares that nudity as displayed in the popular play "Oh! Calcutta!" is a sign of decadence in Western culture   

1972  Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on the Moon on December - 11.   

1972  On this day in history john Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies   

1973  On December - 11 karen and Richard Carpenter received a gold record for their single, Top of the World.   

1974  Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1975  On December - 11 first class postage rises from $0.10 to $0.13   

1978  6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry on this day in history.   

1979  Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66 on December - 11.   

1981  On this day in history muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick   

1981  On this day in history spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center   

1981  UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Secretary-General on this day in history.   

1983  First visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) on December - 11.   

1983  Szymon Laks, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1984  On December - 11 george Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90   

1985  General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC on this day in history.   

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1465  Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489) was born on this day in history.   

1475  On this day in history birth of leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1513-21)   

1475  Pope Leo X (d. 1521) was born on this day in history.   

1566  On this day in history birth of manuel Cardoso, composer   

1676  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer was born on this day in history.   

1709  Louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742) was born on this day in history.   

1712  On this day in history birth of francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)   

1725  On December - 11 birth of george Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)   

0384  Death of Pope Damasus I on December - 11.   

0711  On December - 11 justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42   

1121  On December - 11 death of al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)   

1226  On this day in history death of robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)   

1282  Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, monarch of North Wales (1246-77), dies on December - 11.   

1282  On December - 11 death of llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales.   

1524  Death of Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake on December - 11.   

1532  Death of Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455) on December - 11.