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12/12/1947
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United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
Type: Event
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12/12/1947
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Ralph Scala, rocker
Type: Birth
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12/12/1948
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Ray Jackson, rocker
Type: Birth
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12/12/1949
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Ricardo LuĦs Carreras, NYC, bantamweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1949
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AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
Type: Event
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12/12/1950
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Billy Smith, Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1950
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Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus and high school rule
Type: Event
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12/12/1950
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16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
Type: Event
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12/12/1951
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Steven Alan Hawley, Ottawa Ks, PhD/ast (STS 41-D, 61-C, 31, 82)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1951
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Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
Type: Event
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12/12/1951
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Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Blansky's Beauties)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1952
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Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
Type: Event
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12/12/1952
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Ajit De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan lefty spinner in four Tests 1982)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1952
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Cathy Rigby McCoy, Los Alamitos Calif, gymnist (Olympic-4th-1968)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1952
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Neil Peart, rocker (Rush)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1952
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Sarah Douglas, England, actress (Conan, Superman II, Falcon Crest)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1953
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Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
Type: Event
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12/12/1953
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Bruce Kulick, guitarist/singer (KISS)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1955
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Lenore Rittenhouse, Honolulu HI, LPGA golfer (1983 United Va Bank)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1955
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1st prototype of hovercraft patented by Brit eng Christoper Cockerell
Type: Event
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12/12/1956
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Lorenzo Perosi, composer, dies at 83
Type: Death
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12/12/1956
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Sondra Theodore, San Bernadino Cal, playmate (July, 1977)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1956
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Ana Alicia Ortiz, Mexico City, actress (Melissa-Falcon Crest)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1957
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US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
Type: Event
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12/12/1957
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Robert Frank Kurka, composer, dies at 35
Type: Death
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12/12/1957
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Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
Type: Event
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12/12/1957
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Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham
Type: Event
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12/12/1957
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Cy Curnin, Londo, England, rock vocalist (Fixx-Sign of Fire)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1957
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Sheila E[scovedo], SF CA, disco drummer (Krushgrove, Holly Rock)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1958
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Sheree J Wilson, Rochester MN, actress (Our Family Honor, Dallas)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1958
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Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur
Type: Event
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12/12/1958
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Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
Type: Event
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12/12/1958
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Leo Kenter, Dutch drummer (Trckener Kecks-More! More! More!)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1959
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Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 79
Type: Death
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12/12/1959
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Belouis Some, rocker (Neville Keighley-Some People)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1959
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Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1959
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Scott D Vangen, Granite Falls MN, astronaut
Type: Birth
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12/12/1959
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UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
Type: Event
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12/12/1960
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Amal Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan wicket-keeper in 9 Tests 1983-88)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1960
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Jaap van Sweden, Dutch violinist/concert master
Type: Birth
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12/12/1961
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Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91
Type: Death
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12/12/1961
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Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
Type: Event
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12/12/1961
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Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
Type: Event
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12/12/1961
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Dale Sanderson, CFL guard (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1962
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Ray Brown, NFL guard (Washington Redskins, SF 49ers)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1962
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Tracy Austin, Rolling Hills Calif, tennis pro (US Open 1979, 81)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1962
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Nadeem Ghauri, cricketer (bowled in Test for Pak v Australia 1990)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1962
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Holly Gagnier, LA, actress (One Life to Live)
Type: Birth
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12/12/1962
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Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67
Type: Death
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12/12/1962
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US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Type: Event
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