30 Dec 06 – Saturday
0039 Titus 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
1851 Asa Griggs Candler developed Coca-Cola
1865 Rudyard Kipling Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907)
1928 Bo Diddley [Ellas Bates] Mississippi, rock 'n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley)
1935 Sandy Koufax Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66, perfect-1967)
1945 [David] Davy Jones
1947 Jeff Lynne rocker (ELO
1959 Tracey Ullman
1835 After gold discovery in Georgia, Cherokees are forced to move across Mississippi River
1853 Gadsden Purchase - 45,000 square miles (120,000 km) by Gila River from México for $10 million; Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
1894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1926 Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
1959 The George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
1974 Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
1980 "Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV
1986 US begins Military exercises in Honduras
1993 Vatican recognizes Israel
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling
