Today in History for 9th December 2017:
Historical Events
1924 – Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
1924 – Netherlands and Hungary trade treaty signed
1939 – Russian air raid on Helsinki
1940 – British assault on Benghazi, Libya: first major allied offensive in North Africa
1992 – NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season
2014 – CIA Torture Report released, detailing the CIA’s use of torture on detainees between 2001-2006
Famous Birthdays
1579 – Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice) (d. 1639)
1897 – Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, British actress (Gigi, Music Man), born in London, England (d. 1987)
1906 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and US Navy admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase ‘debugging’, born in NYC, New York (d. 1992)
1910 – Stephen Jurika Jr, US pilot/capt (WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross)
1916 – Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)
1960 – Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician and editor
Famous Deaths
1930 – Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
1948 – Sir Timothy O’Brien, cricketer (Bart 5 Tests England 1884-96), dies
1971 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
1982 – Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violist, dies at 80
2009 – Gene Barry, American actor, dies of congestive heart failure at 90
2013 – Eleanor Parker, American actress, dies from pneumonia at 91