526: KING THEODERIC THE GREAT DIES OF DYSTENTERY AND HIS DAUGHTER AMALASUNTHA TAKES POWER.
Easy for you to say.
1282: PETER III OF ARAGON LANDS AT TRAPANI TO INTERVENE IN THE WAR OF THE SICILIAN VESPERS.
Who knew that Vespers could get so angry?
1464: POPE PAUL II SUCCEEDS POPE PIUS II AS THE 211TH POPE.
There's already been 211 Popes? Back in the day when you could die from a sinus infection.
1574: GURU RAM DAS BECOMES THE FOURTH SIKH GURU/MASTER.
Wasn't this guy a Star Wars character?
1727: ANNE, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF KING GEORGE II OF GREAT BRITAIN, IS GIVEN THE TITLE PRINCESS ROYAL.
Daddy's little girl.
1791: HMS PANDORA SINKS AFTER HAVING RUN AGROUND ON THE OUTER GREAT BARRIER REEF.
My money is on HMS Spotify.
1800: GABRIEL PROSSER POSTPONES A PLANNED SLAVE REBELLION IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
There'll be a slave rebellion doubleheader next month.
1835: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA IS FOUNDED.
I got nothing, mate.
1836: THE CITY OF HOUSTON IS FOUNDED.
Go Astros!
1873: AUSTRIAN EXPLORERS JULIUS VON PAYER AND KARL WEYPRECHT DISCOVER THE ARCHIPELAGO OF FRANZ JOSEK LAND IN THE ARCTIC SEA.
And this impacts me how?
1896: ACTOR RAYMOND MASSEY IS BORN.
Dr. Gillespie!
1898: ACTRESS SHIRLEY BOOTH IS BORN.
So, she was already in her 60s when she was playing Hazel. I did not know that.
1908: ACTOR FRED MACMURRAY IS BORN.
Mike. Robbie. Chip. Ernie. Tramp.
1914: WORLD WAR I - GERMANS DEFEAT THE RUSSIANS IN THE BATTLE OF TANNENBERG.
Still not interested.
1918: FANNI KAPLAN SHOOTS AND SERIOUSLY INJURES BOLSHEVIK LEADER VLADIMIR LENIN.
If the latter had four girls, would they be the Lenin Sisters?
1918: BASEBALL STAR TED WILLIAMS IS BORN.
First day of warmth.
1927: ACTOR BILL DAILY IS BORN.
"And Bob will never die."
1938: MAKE-UP ARTIST MAX FACTOR DIES.
Screw the mascara. Bring the formaldehyde.
1944: BASEBALL STAR TUG MCGRAW IS BORN.
You gotta believe.
1945: HONG KONG IS LIBERATED FROM JAPAN BY BRITISH ARMED FORCES.
Well, the last thing Japan needs right now is another country, given the recent nuclear bomb and all.
1945: THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCES, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR LANDS AT ATSUGI AIR FORCE BASE.
He always shall return.
1946: ACTRESS PEGGY LIPTON IS BORN.
In her 70s now? Wow, that's the Old Squad.
1963: THE MOSCOW-WASHINGTON HOTLINE BETWEEN THE LEADERS OF THE USA AND THE SOVIET UNION GOES INTO OPERATION.
Collusion!!!!!!
1967: THURGOOD MARSHALL IS CONFIRMED AS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE US.
There goes the neighborhood.
1968: ACTOR WILLIAM TALMAN DIES.
This time, it was lung cancer and not Perry Mason who beat him.
1972: ACTRESS CAMERON DIAZ IS BORN.
45 this year. I remember when we thought she was young.
1974: A POWERFUL BOMB EXPLODES AT MITSUBISHI INDUSTRIES IN TOKYO.
Twenty-three TVs were killed.
1979: ACTRESS JEAN SEBERG DIES.
Really breathless now.
1981: DANCER VERA-ELLEN DIES.
A great unsung talent. Focus on her next time you see "White Christmas."
1991: AZERBAIJAN DECLARES INDEPENDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION.
More collusion!!!!
2006: ACTOR GLENN FORD DIES.
The Demise of Eddie's Father.
2015: FILM DIRECTOR WES CRAVEN DIES.
The nightmare you never wake up from.
Dinner last night: Teriyaki stir fry vegetable bowl.
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