Informata Triviata

Summoned at 12:47am on Thursday, December 12, 2013

birth:

E.G. Robinson born, 1893

histo:

First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901

holid:

Independence Day in Kenya

judai:

First Day of Chanukah

events:

Atlantic first bridged by radio when Marconi in Newfoundland receives 's' in Morse code from the British Isles (1901)
Chiang Kai Shek declares war on Japan (1936)
Kenya gains it's independence. (1963)
Ludwig van Beethoven, age 22, pays the equivalent of 19 cents for his first music lesson from Franz Josheph Haydn in Vienna (1792)
Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state (1787)
The Virgin Mary appears again to the farmer Juan Diego and instructs him to take the roses from a nearby bush to the Church as proof that she has visited him. (1531)
last Labrador Duck killed (1878)

lives:

Douglas Fairbanks Sr., actor, dies (1939)
Edward G. Robinson, actor, born in Bucharest, Romania (1893)
Frank Sinatra, singer, is born (1915)
Gustave Flaubert, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'. (1821)
Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. (1805)
Robert Browning, the poet, dies (1889)

radio:

FCC reprimands NBC for allowing Mae West to "sex-up" a skit based on Adam and Eve (1937)

world:

Fiesta of anniversary of the Miracle of Guadalupe (Guadalupe)
Independence Day (Kenya)


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