1673 – Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1966 – Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1968 – KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1975 – Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1979 – US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets
1996 – Toronto’s Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
1815 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women’s rights activist, born in Johnstown, New York (d. 1902)
1833 – Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
1908 – Shamus Culhane, animator
1920 – Richard Quine, actor/director (Clay Pigeon), born in Detroit, Michigan
1944 – Booker T Jones, organist [or Dec 11]
1964 – Jakob Hlasek, Czech, tennis star
1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1944 – George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
1991 – Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60
1991 – Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1996 – Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90
1996 – Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72