Today in History for 2nd December 2017:
Historical Events
1864 – Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
1973 – US Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
1974 – Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
2005 – Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
2006 – 2nd ACC Championship Game: #16 Wake Forest beats #23 Georgia Tech, 9-6
2016 – Fire during a dance party at an Oakland warehouse kills 36
Famous Birthdays
1846 – Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
1929 – Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs (ARP)
1958 – Vladimir Parfenovich, USSR, 500m kayaker (Olympic gold 1980)
1964 – Brian Habib, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1968 – Mark Harding, Bath England, keeper of Internet biographies
1972 – Chris Burns, CFL tackle (Calgary Stampeders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Renegades)
Famous Deaths
1985 – Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
1994 – James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer, dies at 86
2004 – Alicia Markova, British ballerina (Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe 1925-32) dies aged 94
2004 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
2005 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
2005 – Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)