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December 27: National Leftovers Day: --
Repurposing remnants into delightful dishes not only reduces waste
but transforms every meal into an environmental stewardship. While
the date of those leftovers in the fridge might be a bit difficult
to trace, the concept of leftovers probably can find its history
all the way back to the beginning of time! Perhaps there weren't
leftover green bean casseroles in ancient times, but certainly
saving food for the next day is not a new concept. National
Leftovers Day brings attention back to the benefits that come from
being intentional about eating those leftovers. Holidays often
come with their own set of extra leftovers, likely to do with the
fact that the meals cooked for these days are often huge! National
Leftovers Day is here to act as a reminder of the tasty treats
that are just waiting patiently in the refrigerator! Aldi Scotland
is responsible for launching National Leftovers Day in the UK in
2022, with the purpose of encouraging everyone to reduce waste and
promote sustainability and reduce waste by eating up all of the
food that remains after the Christmas holiday. In Australia,
National Leftovers Day was started in 2009 by the Do Something
organization and is celebrated on December 26 or Boxing Day, the
day after Christmas. This day is certainly no burden because the
food was so delicious the first time around, it's likely that the
leftover turkey, ham, or goose, warmed up with mashed potatoes and
gravy will be a delight to enjoy -- especially in a Rica-A-Roni
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December 27: National Fruitcake Day: --
Across the United States, fruitcake lovers young and old,
commemorate National Fruitcake Day each year on December 27th.
Made with chopped candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices and
sometimes soaked in spirits, fruitcake has been a holiday
gift-giving tradition for many years. Dating back to ancient Rome,
one of the earliest known recipes lists pomegranate seeds, pine
nuts, and raisins mixed into barley mash. Records indicate that in
the Middle Ages, makers added honey, spices, and preserved fruits.
Recipes for fruitcakes vary from country to country, depending on
available ingredients and tradition. In the 16th century, two
achievements crystallized to make fruitcakes more affordable and
accessible. First, sugar from the American Colonies became
abundant. Second, it was discovered that high concentrations of
sugar could preserve fruits. These two actions resulted in excess
candied fruit. Consequently, fruitcake making grew. Typically,
Americans produce fruitcakes abundant in fruit and nuts. In
America, mail-order fruitcake began in 1913. Charities often sell
commercial fruitcakes from catalogs as a fundraising event. In
1935, the expression "nutty as a fruitcake" was coined.
The phrase came about as a result of excess nuts some Southern
bakeries added to their fruitcakes due to their access to cheap
nuts. Most mass-produced fruitcakes in America are alcohol-free.
Some traditional recipes include liqueurs or brandy. Bakers then
complete the fruitcake by covering it with powdered sugar. Some
fruitcake makers soaked their fruitcakes in brandy-soaked linens
believing the cakes improved with age. To observe National
Fruitcake Day, share a fruitcake story or recipe - or maybe share
both! Invite someone to enjoy some fruitcake with you. No matter
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December 27: Visit The Zoo Day: --
Although the origins of the day are unclear, we do know that the
idea of the zoo stretches as far back as a couple of millennia.
The word 'zoo' is, in fact, the shortest way to refer to a
zoological park or garden. Zoos are typically home to a range of
species and function as protective shelters for the animals housed
within them. An early form of the zoo or zoological garden was
called a 'menagerie'. It is said to have been much smaller than
the more modern zoo. The first iterations of zoos were private
collections and acted as a show of power. Excavators discovered
remnants of a menagerie in Egypt, which they believe dates back to
around 3500 B.C. Famous kings such as Alexander the Great of
Greece, King Solomon of Israel, and King Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylonia were known animal collectors from their respective
times. Evidence of such zoos or collections of animals has also
been found in places like China and Rome. The first 'modern' zoo
was built in 1793 in Paris, France. This idea of the modern and
public zoo appears to have become popular in the 18th century,
during the Age of Enlightenment, when science became more of a
central pillar to society. Individuals wished to study animals, to
better understand their anatomy and behavior, among other things.
The city of London also saw its first modern zoo being opened in
1828. Animals from the Tower of London menagerie were added to its
collection in due course, with the zoo eventually opening to the
public in 1847. The focus of early modern zoos was not on
functioning as natural habitats for the species housed in them.
Instead, they were more like museums of living animals kept in
small display areas. Zoos today work towards educating and
entertaining members of the public, while also furthering
scientific research and promoting the conservation of species. On
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Today, December 27, 2025
December 27: St. John's Day (The Feast Of
St. John): -- Celebrates the author of the fourth gospel and the
book of "Revelation." He is often shown alongside other
gospel writers like Matthew, Mark, and Luke or sitting at the foot
of the cross opposite Mary. The saint is represented by the eagle.
He was also the subject of several Catholic narratives, like
Giotto's frescoes in the Peruzzi Chapel at Santa Croce in Florence
and Filippino Lippi. He is an important figure in Roman
Catholicism. A saint's feast day is usually celebrated on the day
of their death. However, St. John and the Virgin Mary are the only
two saints whose birthdays are celebrated instead. St. John's Day
was the feast day of St. John - the Baptist across Europe. The
reason for it might be because the timing coincided with older
pagan holidays celebrating the summer solstice. Today, the feast
day is celebrated in countries such as Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. People celebrate the day
by lighting bonfires. They also believed that during the summer
solstice, the spirits roamed freely. Bonfires were lit to ward off
evil spirits and protect themselves from harm. Eventually, people
also started to believe that during the summer solstice, witches
and dragons also needed to be kept away with bonfires. In the
"Gospel of Luke," John the Baptist is described as a
relative of Jesus who spearheaded the movement of baptism at the
Jordan River. Theologians claim that John baptized Jesus by wading
into the water with Jesus in the river. St. John is best known for
the foretelling of the Messiah or the coming of Jesus. According
to the "Gospel of Mark," John was imprisoned by Herod
for criticizing Herod's incestuous marriage. John condemned Herod
for marrying his niece, something that was strictly prohibited in
the Old Testament Law. But it would be in Herod's wife where he'd
tragically meet his death. Herod's wife asked for the head of John
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December 27: International Day Of
Epidemic Preparedness: -- Serves the purpose of creating awareness
about epidemics in honor of the anniversary of birth of Louis
Pasteur, French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for
his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial
fermentation and pasteurization. The truth is, the world has been
infected with numerous epidemics in history. However, mankind
still managed to survive by finding ways to curb the spread of
viruses. But, don't you think a great number of lives can be saved
if nations are already prepared for a deadly epidemic/pandemic to
strike? If you believe awareness and preparedness are key,
celebrate the day with great fervor and spread the message. Play
your part in fighting any epidemic that might come our way! In
late 2019, the coronavirus outbreak began in China. Numerous areas
of the city were sealed as the infection rate began to rise and
the body count increased. However, even though the news of the
virus spread across the world, the authorities were unable to
contain the disease. Within a few months, cases of COVID-19
emerged across the world and the death toll escalated. The virus,
which was initially presumed to be the flu, was announced to be a
pandemic that had impacted millions of lives across the world. Due
to the pandemic, the holes in the healthcare systems of several
countries were revealed as hospitals ran out of beds and
ventilators. In fact, there was a point when hand sanitizers and
surgical masks were also out of stock. However, after months of
studying the pandemic, several health experts believe that
COVID-19 could have been contained if the world was prepared.
Keeping this in mind, the first-ever International Day of Epidemic
Preparedness was held on December 27, 2020. The day was called for
by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate the importance
of the prevention of, preparedness for, and partnership against
epidemics. This was deemed necessary since COVID-19 highlighted
the importance of investing in systems to prevent, detect and
respond to infectious disease outbreaks. "COVID-19 is a human
tragedy. But it has also created a generational opportunity. An
opportunity to build back a more equal and sustainable world,"
Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations said. On
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December 27: The Anniversary Of Benazir
Bhutto's Death Day: -- December 27, 2007: Benazir Bhutto,
Pakistani politician, stateswoman and beauty, first-ever female
leader of a Muslim nation, 11th prime minister of Pakistan from
1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996 (b. June 21, 1953) #dies
when a man standing 2-3 metres from the bulletproof car she had
just exited from by its escape hatch fired three gunshots at her
and detonated a suicide vest packed with ball bearings. The Salafi
jihadist group Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, although the
involvement of the Pakistani Taliban and rogue elements of the
intelligence services was widely suspected. She posthumously came
to be regarded as an icon for women's rights due to her political
success in a male-dominated society. That morning, Bhutto met had
met with the Afghan secularist Muslim President Hamid Karzai. She
then left for an afternoon speech she gave at a rally, in a park
named Rawalpindi's Liaquat National Bagh, of the liberal and
secularist politcal party she alternately chaired or co-chaired
from the early 1980s until her assassination, the Pakistan
People's Party (PPP). After leaving the rally, she opened the
car's escape hatch, stood up to wave to the surrounding crowds
that greeted her, and was assassinated as she left the
vehicle.Reports differ as to whether she was hit by bullets or by
shrapnel from the explosion. Twenty-two others also died. Bhutto
was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital but was clinically dead
on arrival and attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful. No
autopsy was conducted, and the body was swiftly transported to
Chaklala Air Base. The following day, she was buried next to her
father in the Bhutto family mausoleum, Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, her
family graveyard near Larkana, Sidh, Pakistan. Musharraf declared
a three-day period of mourning, while PPP supporters rioted in
various parts of Pakistan, leading to at least 50 deaths.
Authorities claimed that the assassin had been a teenage boy from
South Waziristan. They claimed to have proof that the attack had
been masterminded by Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistani
Taliban. The United States Central Intelligence Agency concurred
that this was probable, although Mehsud denied the accusation.
Mehsud nevertheless had a motive: he believed that Bhutto's
pro-American and secularist agenda would undermine the Pakistani
Taliban's control of South Waziristan and hinder the growth of
Sunni Islamist radicalism. Al-Qaeda commander Mustafa Abu al-Yazid
claimed responsibility for the assassination, declaring that "We
terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat
[the] mujahideen." The PPP accused the government of a
cover-up, with several PPP figures claiming that Bhutto had been
killed by a sniper linked to the intelligence agencies. Within
Pakistan, there was also public speculation that the attack might
have been masterminded by India or the United States. Musharraf
agreed to invite Britain's Scotland Yard to investigate the
assassination, although its eventual report proved inconclusive.
Requests for the body to be exhumed for an autopsy were rejected
by Zardari. Benazir Bhuttoo was born at Pinto's Nursing Home in
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan into a faimly of politically important,
wealthy aristocratics of mixed Sindhi, Persian, and Kurdish
parentage. She studied at Harvard University and the University of
Oxford, where she was President of the Oxford Union. Her father,
the PPP leader Zulfikar Bhutto, was elected prime minister on a
socialist platform in 1973. She returned to Pakistan in 1977,
shortly before her father was ousted in a military coup and
executed. Bhutto and her mother Nusrat took control of the PPP and
led the country's Movement for the Restoration of Democracy;
Bhutto was repeatedly imprisoned by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's military
government and then self-exiled to Britain in 1984. She returned
in 1986 and-influenced by Thatcherite economics-transformed the
PPP's platform from a socialist to a liberal one, before leading
it to victory in the 1988 election. As prime minister, her
attempts at reform were stifled by conservative and Islamist
forces, including President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and the powerful
military. Her administration was accused of corruption and
nepotism and dismissed by Khan in 1990. Intelligence services
rigged that year's election to ensure a victory for the
conservative Islamic Democratic Alliance (IJI), at which point
Bhutto became Leader of the Opposition. After the IJI government
of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was also dismissed on corruption
charges, Bhutto led the PPP to victory in the 1993 elections. In
her second term, she oversaw economic privatisation and attempts
to advance women's rights. Her government was damaged by several
controversies, including the assassination of her brother Murtaza,
a failed 1995 coup d'etat, and a further bribery scandal involving
her and her husband Asif Ali Zardari; in response, President
Farooq Leghari dismissed her government. The PPP lost the 1997
election and in 1998 she went into self-exile, living between
Dubai and London for the next decade. A widening corruption
inquiry culminated in a 2003 conviction in a Swiss court.
Following the United States-brokered negotiations with then
president, general Pervez Musharraf, she returned to Pakistan in
2007 to compete in the 2008 elections; her platform emphasised
civilian oversight of the military and opposition to growing
Islamist violence. Bhutto was a controversial figure who remains
divisive. She was often criticised as being politically
inexperienced, was accused of being corrupt, and faced much
opposition from Pakistan's Islamist lobby for her secularist and
modernising agenda. In the early years of her career, she was
nevertheless domestically popular and also attracted support from
the international community, seen as a champion of democracy. On
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December 27, 1571: #BOTD: #HBD! Johannes
Kepler, German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer
considered the father of modern astronomy (d. November 15, 1630)
is #born in Wurttemberg, Germany. He is a key figure in the
17th-century scientific revolution, best known for his laws of
planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi,
and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. These works also provided
one of the foundations for Newton's theory of universal
gravitation. Among many other discoveries, he discovered the
elliptical (oval) shape of the orbits in which the earth and other
planets travel around the sun at a speed that varies according to
each planet's distance from the sun. Kepler was a mathematics
teacher at a seminary school in Graz, where he became an associate
of Prince Hans Ulrich Von Eggenberg. Later he became an assistant
to the astronomer Tycho Brahe in Prague, and eventually the
imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II and his two successors
Matthias and Ferdinand II. He also taught mathematics in Linz, and
was an adviser to General Wallenstein. Additionally, he did
fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved
version of the refracting (or Keplerian) telescope, and was
mentioned in the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary
Galileo Galilei. Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear
distinction between astronomy and astrology, but there was a
strong division between astronomy (a branch of mathematics within
the liberal arts) and physics (a branch of natural philosophy).
Kepler also incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into
his work, motivated by the religious conviction and belief that
God had created the world according to an intelligible plan that
is accessible through the natural light of reason. Kepler
described his new astronomy as "celestial physics", as
"an excursion into Aristotle's Metaphysics", and as "a
supplement to Aristotle's On the Heavens", transforming the
ancient tradition of physical cosmology by treating astronomy as
part of a universal mathematical physics. Johannes Kepler died in
Regensburg, Germany on a trip to collect interest on work he had
done previously, aged 58. He was buried in a Protestant churchyard
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December 27, 1657: Freedom Of Religion
(Religious Liberty): The Jewish Diaspora: History Of The Jews In
The United States: History Of The Jews In Colonial America: The
Jewish Arrival In New Amsterdam: History Of The Jews In New York:
Jews In New York City: The Flushing Remonstrance: -- A group of
Dutch citizens who were affronted by the persecution of Quakers
and the religious policies of Dutch Director-General of the colony
of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, sign The Flushing
Remonstrance, which articulates for the first time in North
American history that freedom of religion is a fundamental right;
none of the signatories were Quakers. The Flushing Remonstrance is
considered a forerunner to the United States Constitution's own
provision of freedom of religion articulated in the Bill of
Rights. The Remonstrance ends with the words: "The law of
love, peace and liberty in the states extending to Jews, Turks and
Egyptians, as they are considered sonnes of Adam, which is the
glory of the outward state of Holland, soe love, peace and
liberty, extending to all in Christ Jesus, condemns hatred, war
and bondage. And because our Saviour sayeth it is impossible but
that offences will come, but woe unto him by whom they cometh, our
desire is not to offend one of his little ones, in whatsoever
form, name or title hee appears in, whether Presbyterian,
Independent, Baptist or Quaker, but shall be glad to see anything
of God in any of them, desiring to doe unto all men as we desire
all men should doe unto us, which is the true law both of Church
and State; for our Saviour sayeth this is the law and the
prophets. Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto
us, we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them, but give
them free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God
shall persuade our consciences, for we are bounde by the law of
God and man to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man. And this
is according to the patent and charter of our Towne, given unto us
in the name of the States General, which we are not willing to
infringe, and violate, but shall houlde to our patent and shall
remaine, your humble subjects, the inhabitants of Vlishing."
The Flushing Remonstrance was a petition to Peter Stuyvesant
(Dutch: Pieter Stuyvesant or Petrus Stuyvesant) (c. 1610 - August
1672), the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New
Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the
English in 1664 (after which it was split into New York and New
Jersey, with lesser territory becoming parts of other colonies,
and later, states), in which some thirty residents of the small
settlement of Vlissingen (known at the time in English as
Vlishing, since historically known in English as Flushing),
requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. Vlissingen
(Flushing) was originally settled by English people operating
under a patent, issued by Governor Willem Kieft in 1645, granting
them the same state of religious freedom existing in Holland, then
the most tolerant of European countries. Peter Stuyvesant was a
major figure in the early history of New York City; his name has
been given to various landmarks and points of interest throughout
the city, especially the New York City neighborhood of
Bedford-Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant Town, as well as Stuyvesant High
School, etc.. Peter Stuyvesant's 1656 ordinance against illegal
religious meetings had formally banned the practice of all
religions outside of the Dutch Reformed Church, the established
church of the Netherlands, in the colony. His often-derided
decision flew against the approximately hundred-year development
of religious tolerance in the Netherlands. During this time the
country was revolting against Spanish rule, rebelling against an
imposed Inquisition, attempting to form a national identity, and
trying to unify Calvinist and Catholic provinces. At the same
time, Stuyvesant also opposed Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam. On
another front, the Stuyvesant family was broadly tolerant. Judith,
Stuyvesant's wife, was a fierce advocate for New York's slaves,
promoting the practice of baptism as a first step toward freedom.
His policy met with resistance from some English settlers in the
towns of Vlissingen (currently Flushing), Rustdorp (currently
Jamaica, Queens), and "'s Gravesande" (sic) (currently
Gravesend, Brooklyn), places where Quaker missions were sent.
Stuyvesant's actions, however, also met with the support of other
English settlers and magistrates who informed on those embracing
unorthodox teachings and meeting in small and unsanctioned
religious meetings of lay people called conventicles. Thus,
Stuyvesant found himself drawn into the religious debates and
bickering of the English community in the Atlantic colonies and
debates in England which culminated in the Conventicle Act 1664
that likewise banned religious assemblies. This policy resulted in
numerous acts of religious persecution and harassment. In 1656
William Wickenden, a Baptist minister from Rhode Island, was
arrested by Dutch colonial authorities, jailed, fined, and exiled
for baptizing Christians in Flushing. In the same year Robert
Hodgson was arrested, tried, and sentenced to two years of manual
labor with slaves for his preaching of Quakerism. In 1661, in the
town of Rustdorp, Henry Townsend (Norwich) and Samuel Spicer were
fined for holding Quaker conventicles and Townsend was banished as
well. Stuyvesant sent three new magistrates, all Englishmen, and a
half dozen soldiers to gather information on dissidents. The
soldiers were billeted in the homes of the dissidents until they
agreed to conform. In 1662, in 's-Gravesande, Samuel Spicer and
his mother, Micha, along with John and Mary Tilton were imprisoned
and later banished. They moved to Oyster Bay, then outside of the
authority of New Netherland, and returned to their town after 1664
when the British took control of the colony. In response to the
Remonstrance, Stuyvesant dismissed the local government and chose
new Dutch replacements as leaders. Four who signed were arrested
by order of Stuyvesant. Two immediately recanted, but the writer
of the remonstrance, Edward Hart, and sheriff of Flushing Tobias
Feake remained firm in their convictions. Both men were remanded
to prison where they survived in isolation on rations of bread and
water for over a month. After friends and family petitioned
Stuyvesant on behalf of the elderly Hart, the clerk was released
on penalty of banishment. Feake held out for a few more weeks, but
eventually recanted and was pardoned after being fined and banned
from holding public office. Stuyvesant asserted that he was not
violating the signers' "freedom of conscience," only
their right to worship outside of family prayer meetings. In
addition, he proclaimed March 13, 1658 a Day of Prayer for the
purpose of repenting from, incredibly, the sin of religious
tolerance. Subsequently, John Bowne of the colony allowed Quakers
to meet in his house. He was arrested in 1662 and brought before
Stuyvesant. Unrepentant, Bowne was sentenced to banishment to
Holland, though he was of English descent and spoke no Dutch.
After several months in the foreign land, Bowne petitioned the
directors of the Dutch West India Company. After a month of
deliberation, the Dutch West India Company agreed to support
Bowne, and advised Stuyvesant by a letter (1663) that he was to
end religious persecution in the colony. One year later, in 1664,
the colony fell to British control. The John Bowne House, built
before 1662, still stands in historic preservation. The Quaker
Meeting House in Flushing, built 1694, is now the oldest house of
worship in continuous use in New York State. The Quaker Meeting
House in Flushing, built in 1694 and located at 137-28 Norther
Boulevard (NY-25A) at the terminus of Linden Place, is now the
oldest house of worship in continuous use in New York State. On
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December 27, 1822: #BOTD: #HBD! Louis
Pasteur, French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for
his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial
fermentation and pasteurization (d. September 28, 1895) is #born
in Dole, France. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs
in the causes and prevention of diseases, and his discoveries have
saved many lives ever since. He reduced mortality from puerperal
fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. His
medical discoveries provided direct support for the germ theory of
disease and its application in clinical medicine. He is best known
to the general public for his invention of the technique of
treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process
now called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main
founders of bacteriology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert
Koch, and is popularly known as the "father of microbiology".
Pasteur was responsible for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous
generation. He performed experiments that showed that without
contamination, microorganisms could not develop. Under the
auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, he demonstrated that
in sterilized and sealed flasks nothing ever developed, and in
sterilized but open flasks microorganisms could grow. Although
Pasteur was not the first to propose the germ theory, his
experiments indicated its correctness and convinced most of Europe
that it was true. Today, he is often regarded as one of the
fathers of germ theory. Pasteur made significant discoveries in
chemistry, most notably on the molecular basis for the asymmetry
of certain crystals and racemization. Early in his career, his
investigation of tartaric acid, a white, crystalline organic acid
that occurs naturally in many fruits, most notably in grapes, but
also in bananas, tamarinds, and citrus, resulted in the first
resolution of what is now called optical isomers, ions or
molecules with identical formulas but distinct structures. His
work led the way to the current understanding of a fundamental
principle in the structure of organic compounds. He was the
director of the Pasteur Institute, established in 1887, until his
death, and his body was interred in a vault beneath the institute.
Although Pasteur made groundbreaking experiments, his reputation
became associated with various controversies. Historical
reassessment of his notebook revealed that he practiced deception
to overcome his rivals. Louis Pasteur died in Marnes-la-Coquette
near Paris, France from the long-term effects of a stroke and
uremia, aged 72. He was given a state funeral and was buried in
the Cathedral of Notre Dame, but his remains were reinterred in
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December 27, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Marlene
Dietrich, German-American actress, singer, sex symbol, cultural
icon, anti-fascist activist and beauty who held both German and
American citizenship (d. May 6, 1992) is #born Marie Magdalene
Dietrich in Berlin, Germany. Throughout her unusually long career,
which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, she maintained
popularity by continually reinventing herself. In the 1920s in
Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films. Her
performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel (1930) brought her
international fame and resulted in a contract with Paramount
Pictures. Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as Morocco
(1930), Shanghai Express (1932), and Desire (1936). She
successfully traded on her glamorous persona and "exotic"
looks, and became one of the highest-paid actresses of the era.
Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the
United States. Although she still made occasional films after the
war, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the
world as a marquee live-show performer. Dietrich was noted for her
humanitarian efforts during the war, housing German and French
exiles, providing financial support and even advocating their US
citizenship. For her work on improving morale on the front lines
during the war, she received several honors from the United
States, France, Belgium, and Israel. In 1999, the American Film
Institute named Dietrich the ninth-greatest female star of classic
Hollywood cinema. Marlene Dietrich died of kidney failure at her
flat in Paris, France at age 90. Her funeral was a requiem mass
conducted at the Roman Catholic church of La Madeleine in Paris on
May 14, 1992. Dietrich's funeral service was attended by
approximately 1,500 mourners in the church itself - including
ambassadors from Germany, Russia, the US, the UK, and other
countries - with thousands more outside. Her closed coffin, draped
in the French flag, rested beneath the altar and was adorned with
a simple bouquet of white wildflowers and roses from the French
President Francois Mitterrand. Three medals, including France's
Legion d'honneur and the U.S. Medal of Freedom were displayed at
the foot of the coffin, military style, for a ceremony symbolizing
the sense of duty Dietrich embodied in her career as an actress,
and in her personal fight against Nazism. The officiating priest
remarked: "Everyone knew her life as an artist of film and
song, and everyone knew her tough stands... She lived like a
soldier and would like to be buried like a soldier". By
coincidence, her picture was used in the Cannes Film Festival
poster that year which was pasted up all over Paris. In her will,
Dietrich expressed the wish to be buried in her birthplace Berlin,
near her family. Her body was flown there to fulfill her wish on
May 16, 1992. Her coffin was draped in an American flag befitting
her status as an American. As her coffin traveled through Berlin,
bystanders threw flowers onto it, a fitting tribute because
Dietrich loved flowers, even saving the flowers thrown to her at
the end of her performances for use in subsequent shows. Dietrich
is interred at the Stadtischer Friedhof III, Schoneberg, close by
the grave of her mother Josefine Von Losch, and near the house
where she was born. On October 24, 1993, the main portion of
Dietrich's estate (on which the U.S. institutions showed no
interest), was sold to the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, where it
became the core of the exhibition at the Filmmuseum Berlin. The
collection includes: over 3,000 textile items from the 1920s to
the 1990s, including film and stage costumes as well as over a
thousand items from Dietrich's personal wardrobe; 15,000
photographs, by Sir Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell,
Lord Snowdon and Edward Steichen; 300,000 pages of documents,
including correspondence with Burt Bacharach, Yul Brynner, Maurice
Chevalier, Noel Coward, Jean Gabin, Ernest Hemingway, Karl
Lagerfeld, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Erich Maria Remarque, Josef
Von Sternberg, Orson Welles and Billy Wilder; as well as other
items like film posters and sound recordings. The Marlene Dietrich
Collection was sold to the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek for 5M USD
by Dietrich's heirs. The contents of Dietrich's Manhattan
apartment, along with other personal effects such as jewelry and
items of clothing, were sold by public auction by Sotheby's in Los
Angeles in November 1997. Her former apartment located at 993 Park
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Today, December 27, 2025
December 27, 1922: Aviation: The History
Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: The History Of
Naval Aviation: -- The Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho ("Flying
Phoenix") becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to
be commissioned in the world. She participated in the Shanghai
Incident in 1932 and in the opening stages of the Sino-Japanese
War in late 1937. During those two conflicts, the carrier's
aircraft supported Imperial Japanese Army ground operations and
engaged in aerial combat with aircraft of the Nationalist Chinese
Air Force. The small size of the ship and her assigned airgroups
(usually around 15 aircraft) limited the effectiveness of her
contributions to combat operations. As a result, the carrier was
placed in reserve after her return to Japan from China and she
became a training carrier in 1939. During World War II, Hosho
participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 in a secondary
role. After the battle, the carrier resumed her training role in
Japanese home waters for the duration of the conflict and survived
the war with only minor damage from air attacks. She was used as a
repatriation transport after the war, making nine trips to bring
some 40,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians to Japan from overseas
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Today, December 27, 2025
December 27, 1929: The Interwar Period
(The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars):
The Soviet Union (The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR):
The History Of The Soviet Union: Mass Repression In The Soviet
Union: Stalinism: Collectivization In The Soviet Union:
Dekulakization: -- Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders
the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".
Dekulakization (Russian: Raskulachivanie; Ukrainian:
Rozkurkulennia) was the Soviet campaign of political repressions,
including arrests, deportations, or executions of millions of
kulaks (prosperous peasants) and their families in the 1929-1932
period of the first five-year plan. To facilitate the
expropriations of farmland, the Soviet government portrayed kulaks
as class enemies of the USSR. More than 1.8 million peasants were
deported in 1930-1931. The campaign had the stated purpose of
fighting counter-revolution and of building socialism in the
countryside. This policy, carried out simultaneously with
collectivization in the Soviet Union, effectively brought all
agriculture and all the laborers in Soviet Russia under state
control. Hunger, disease, and mass executions during
dekulakization led to at least 530,000 to 600,000 deaths from 1929
to 1933, though higher estimates also exist, Soviet era expert
Robert Conquest estimating in 1986 that 5 million people may have
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Today, December 27, 2025
December 27, 1932: Grand Openings:
Theatre Grand Openings (Theater Grand Openings): Music Hall
Openings: -- Radio City Music Hall, nicknamed "Showplace Of
The Nation", opens in New York City. It is an entertainment
venue located at 1260 Avenue of the Americas at Rockefeller Center
in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was for a time the leading
tourist destination in the city. The venue is notable as the
headquarters for the precision dance company, the Rockettes. Radio
City Music Hall was built on a plot of land that was originally
intended for a Metropolitan Opera House. The opera house plans
were canceled in 1929, leading to the construction of Rockefeller
Center. The new complex included two theaters, the "International
Music Hall" and the Center Theatre, as part of the "Radio
City" portion of Rockefeller Center. The 5,960-seat Music
Hall was the larger of the two venues. It was largely successful
until the 1970s, when declining patronage nearly drove the Music
Hall to bankruptcy. Radio City Music Hall was designated a New
York City Landmark in May 1978, and the Music Hall was restored
and allowed to remain open. Radio City Music Hall was designed by
Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style. One
of the more notable parts of the Music Hall is its large
auditorium, which was the world's largest when the Hall first
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Today, December 27, 2025
December 27, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Cokie
Roberts, American journalist and bestselling author (d. September
17, 2019) is #born Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs in
New Orleans. She received the nickname Cokie from her brother,
Thomas Hale Boggs Jr, future U.S. representative from Louisiana
and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican under President Bill Clinton,
who as a child could not pronounce her given name, Corinne. Cokie
Roberts' career included decades as a political reporter and
analyst for National Public Radio (NPR) and ABC News, with
prominent positions on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer
NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week. She was considered
one of NPR's "Founding Mothers" along with Susan
Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg. Along with her
husband Steve Roberts, she wrote a weekly column syndicated by
United Media in newspapers around the United States. She served on
the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser
Family Foundation (KFF) and was appointed by President George W.
Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation. Her
husband, Steven V. Roberts, was born in Bayonne and went to
Bayonne High School. Cokie Roberts died from complications of
metastatic breast cancer in Washington, D.C.. She is buried at The
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Today, December 27, 2025
December 27, 1947: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Premieres: Television Premieres: United States Television
Premieres: -- Howdy Doody, an American children's television
program with circus and Western frontier themes that was created
and produced by E. Roger Muir, premieres on the NBC network. It
was a pioneer in children's television programming and set the
pattern for many similar shows. One of the first television series
produced at NBC in Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a
pioneer in early color production as NBC, at the time owned by TV
maker RCA, used the show in part to sell color television sets in
the 1950s. It ran from December 27, 1947, until September 24,
1960.
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Today, December 27, 2025
December 27, 1949: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Decolonisation Of Asia: Indonesia: The History Of
Indonesia: The Indonesian National Revolution: -- The Netherlands
officially recognizes Indonesian independence, bringing about the
end of the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch transferred sovereignty of
Indonesia to the new United States of Indonesia. The new nation
retained a formal association with the Netherlands until 1954,
when an independent Republic of Indonesia was formed. Indonesia is
the largest country in Southeast Asia. It consists of 13,677
islands along the equator between the Indian and Pacific oceans,
and a population of over 150 million. The Indonesian National
Revolution, or Indonesian War of Independence, was an armed
conflict and diplomatic struggle between the Republic of Indonesia
and the Dutch Empire and an internal social revolution during
postwar and postcolonial Indonesia. It took place between
Indonesia's Declaration Of Independence in 1945 and the
Netherlands' recognition of Indonesia's independence at the end of
1949. The four-year struggle involved sporadic but bloody armed
conflict, internal Indonesian political and communal upheavals,
and two major international diplomatic interventions. Dutch
military forces (and, for a while, the forces of the World War II
Allies) were able to control the major towns, cities and
industrial assets in Republican heartlands on Java and Sumatra but
could not control the countryside. By 1949, international pressure
on the Netherlands and the partial military stalemate became such
that it recognised Indonesian independence. The revolution marked
the end of the colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies,
except for Netherlands New Guinea. It also significantly changed
ethnic castes as well as reducing the power of many of the local
rulers (raja). It did not significantly improve the economic or
political fortune of the majority of the population, although a
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Today, December 27, 2025
December 27, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP:
Meadowlark Lemon, African American basketball player and Christian
minister #dies in Scottsdale at the age of 83 of undisclosed
causes. His remains were cremated, and his remains given to his
widow Cynthia. Meadowlark Lemon was born Meadow Lemon III in
Wilmington, North Carolina. Known professionally as Meadowlark
Lemon, he was ordained a minister in 1986, and from 1994, he
served Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in Scottsdale, Arizona. For 22
years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring
Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He played in more than
16,000 games for the Globetrotters and was a 2003 inductee into
the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. When basketball
legend Wilt Chamberlain was asked his opinion on the best player
of all time, he responded, "For me it would be Meadowlark
Lemon." Fellow Wilmington great Michael Jordan called Lemon a
"true national treasure" and a personal inspiration in
Jordan's youth.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Charles
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1831: Evolution: The Theory
Of Evolution: The Voyages Of The HMS Beagle: The Second Voyage Of
HMS Beagle: -- Charles Darwin set out from Plymouth, England,
aboard the ship HMS Beagle on his five-year global scientific
expedition. Darwin collected fossils and studied plants and
animals, gradually beginning to doubt that many diverse species of
living things had sprung into existence at one moment
(creationism). In 1859, he published On the Origin of Species by
Means of Natural Selection, a work of scientific literature by
Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of
evolutionary biology. The Second Voyage Of HMS Beagle (December
27, 1831 - October 2, 1836) was the second survey expedition of
HMS Beagle under captain Robert FitzRoy, who had taken over
command of the ship on its first voyage after the previous captain
committed suicide. FitzRoy had already thought of the advantages
of having an expert in geology on board, and sought a gentleman
naturalist to accompany them as a supernumerary. At the age of 22,
the graduate Charles Darwin hoped to see the tropics before
becoming a parson, and accepted the opportunity. He was greatly
influenced by reading Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology during
the voyage. By the end of the expedition, Darwin had already made
his name as a geologist and fossil collector, and the publication
of his journal which became known as The Voyage of the Beagle gave
him wide renown as a writer. Beagle sailed across the Atlantic
Ocean, and then carried out detailed hydrographic surveys around
the coasts of the southern part of South America, returning via
Tahiti and Australia after having circumnavigated the Earth. While
the expedition was originally planned to last two years, it lasted
almost five. Darwin spent most of this time exploring on land:
three years and three months on land, 18 months at sea. Early in
the voyage he decided that he could write a book about geology,
and he showed a gift for theorising. At Punta Alta in Argentina he
made a major find of gigantic fossils of extinct mammals, then
known from only a very few specimens. He ably collected and made
detailed observations of plants and animals, with results that
shook his belief that species were fixed and provided the basis
for ideas which came to him when back in England, and led to his
theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1923: #DOTD: #RIP: Gustave
Eiffel (Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, ne Bonickhausen dit Eiffel),
French architect and civil engineer, co-designer of the Eiffel
Tower (b. December 15, 1832) #dies while listening to Beethoven's
5th symphony andante in his mansion on Rue Rabelais in Paris,
France, aged 91. He is buried in the Eiffel family tomb in
Levallois-Perret Cemetery in the northwestern suburbs of Paris,
France; strictly speaking, it is just outside Paris in the
arrondissement of Nanterre, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, in
the Ile-de-France region. Gustave Eiffel was born Bonickhausen dit
Eiffel in Dijon, Cote-d'Or, France, the first child of
Catherine-Melanie (nee Moneuse) and Alexandre Bonickhausen dit
Eiffel. He was a descendant of Jean-Rene Bonickhausen, who had
emigrated from the German town of Marmagen and settled in Paris at
the beginning of the 18th century. The family adopted the name
Eiffel as a reference to the Eifel mountains in the region from
which they had come. Although the family always used the name
Eiffel, Gustave's name was registered at birth as Bonickhausen dit
Eiffel, and was not formally changed to Eiffel until 1880. A
graduate of the prestigious Ecole Centrale des Arts et
Manufactures of France, he made his name with various bridges for
the French railway network, most famously the Garabit viaduct. He
is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the
1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to
building the Statue Of Liberty in New York. After his retirement
from engineering, Eiffel focused on research into meteorology and
aerodynamics, making significant contributions in both fields.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1918: The Aftermath Of World
War I: Revolutions Of 1917-1923: The Greater Poland Uprising Of
1918-1919 (The Wielkopolska Uprising Of 1918-1919, The Posnanian
War): -- A military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland
region (German: Grand Duchy of Posen or Provinz Posen) against
German rule begins against the Germans. The Greater Poland
Uprising Of 1918-1919 (Polish: Powstanie Wielkopolskie 1918-19
Roku; German: Grosspolnischer Aufstand) had a significant effect
on the Treaty Of Versailles, which granted a reconstituted Second
Polish Republic the area won by the Polish insurrectionists. The
region had been part of the Kingdom Of Poland and then
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before the 1793 Second Partition of
Poland when it was annexed by the German Kingdom of Prussia. It
had also, following the 1806 Greater Poland Uprising, been part of
the Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1815), a French puppet state during the
Napoleonic Wars.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: Hoagy
Carmichael, American composer, singer, songwriter, pianist,
bandleader and actor, one of the most successful of the Tin Pan
Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first
singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new
communication technologies, such as television and the use of
electronic microphones and sound recordings (b. November 22, 1899)
#dies of a heart attack at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho
Mirage, California at age 82. His remains are buried in Rose Hill
Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana. Hoagy Carmichael was born
Hoagland Howard Carmichaelin Bloomington, Indiana. Around 1922,
Carmichael first met Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, a cornetist
and sometime pianist from Iowa who is one of the most influential
soloists of jazz music. The two became friends and played music
together, and around 1923, during a visit to Chicago, Beiderbecke
introduced Carmichael to Louis Armstrong, with whom Carmichael
would later collaborate, while Armstrong was playing with
Chicago-based King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Carmichael was
inspired by Beiderbecke's impressionistic and classical music
ideas, and Carmichael's first recorded song, initially titled
"Free Wheeling," was written for Beiderbecke, whose
band, the Wolverines, recorded it as "Riverboat Shuffle"
in 1924 for Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana. The song became
a jazz staple. Carmichael went on to compose several hundred
songs, including fifty that achieved hit record status. He is best
known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia
on My Mind" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), "The Nearness of
You", and "Heart and Soul" (in collaboration with
lyricist Frank Loesser), four of the most-recorded American songs
of all time. He also collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on
"Lazybones" and "Skylark"; "In the Cool,
Cool, Cool of the Evening," with lyrics by Mercer, won the
Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1951. Carmichael also
appeared as a character actor and musical performer in fourteen
motion pictures, hosted three musical-variety radio programs,
performed on television, and wrote two autobiographies.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1979: #DOTD: Hafizullah
Amin, Afghan educator, communist politician during the cold war,
Afghan People's Democratic Party General Secretary and 2nd
President of Afghanistan (b. August 1, 1929) #dies when he is
assassinated by the Soviets as part of Operation Storm-333
(Russian: Shtorm-333), a covert operation in which Soviet special
forces stormed the Tajbeg Palace in Afghanistan with the
deliberate intent of assassinating Amin. He is buried at The
Tajbeg Palace Grounds. There are various accounts of how Amin
died, and the exact details have never been confirmed, but it is
believed he was killed either by a deliberate attack or died by a
"random burst of fire", having ruled for slightly longer
than three months. Tajbeg Palace was guarded by Afghan National
Army. In the ensuing battle, Afghan armed forces suffered major
losses. 30 Afghan palace guards and over 300 army guards were
killed while 150 were captured. Amin's 11-year-old son died from
shrapnel wounds. A total of 1,700 Afghan soldiers surrendered to
Soviet troops and were taken as prisoners. The Soviets installed
Babrak Karmal as Amin's successor. Several other government
buildings were seized during the operation, including the Ministry
of Interior building, the Internal Security (KHAD) building, and
the General Staff building (Darul Aman Palace). Alpha Group
veterans call this operation one of the most successful in the
group's history. Declassified Russian documents show that the
Soviet leadership believed that Hafizullah Amin had secret
contacts with the US embassy and was probably a US agent. However,
this assumption was later proven to be false. Hafizullah Amin was
born in the Paghman district of Kabul and educated at Kabul
University, after which he started his career as a teacher. After
a few years in that occupation, he went to the United States to
study. He would visit the United States a second time before
moving permanently to Afghanistan, and starting his career in
radical politics. He ran as a candidate in the 1965 parliamentary
election but failed to secure a seat. Amin was the only Khalqist
elected to parliament in the 1969 parliamentary election, thus
increasing his standing within the party. He was one of the
leading organizers of the Saur Revolution which overthrew the
government of Mohammad Daoud Khan. In 1979 he named himself as
president, prime minister, and chairman of the Khalq wing. He has
been described as "ruthless" and a "radical
Marxist". Amin's short-lived presidency was marked by
controversies from beginning to end. He came to power by disposing
of his predecessor Nur Muhammad Taraki and later ordering his
death. Amin made attempts to win support from those who revolted
against the communist regime which had begun under Taraki, but his
government was unable to solve this problem. Many Afghans held
Amin responsible for the regime's harshest measures, such as
ordering thousands of executions. Thousands of people disappeared
without trace during his time in office. The Soviet Union, which
was dissatisfied with Amin, intervened in Afghanistan while
invoking the Twenty-Year Treaty of Friendship between Afghanistan
and the Soviet Union.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Norman
Schwarzkopf, Jr., United States Army General and engineer (b.
August 22, 1934) #dies of complications following a bout of
pneumonia at the age of 78. A memorial service was conducted on
February 28, 2013, at the Cadet Chapel at West Point, which was
attended by Colin Powell, Schwarzkopf's family, and others.
Schwarzkopf was cremated and his ashes were buried near those of
his father in the West Point Cemetery in a ceremony attended by
cadets, military leaders, New York and New Jersey State Police
Troopers. Among reactions to Schwarzkopf's death, George H. W.
Bush said of him: "General Norm Schwarzkopf, to me,
epitomized the 'duty, service, country' creed that has defended
our freedom and seen this great Nation through our most trying
international crises. More than that, he was a good and decent man
and a dear friend." In a statement, President Barack Obama
said "From his decorated service in Vietnam to the historic
liberation of Kuwait and his leadership of United States Central
Command, General Schwarzkopf stood tall for the country and Army
he loved." In a letter, Secretary of the Army John McHugh and
Army Chief Of Staff General Raymond T. Odierno wrote in a joint
statement, "Our nation owes a great debt of gratitude to
General Schwarzkopf and our Soldiers will hold a special place in
their hearts for this great leader. While much will be written in
coming days of his many accomplishments, his most lasting and
important legacies are the tremendous soldiers he trained and
led." He was born Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. in Trenton,
New Jersey, to Ruth Alice (nee Bowman) Schwarzkopf and Herbert
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., the first superintendent of the New Jersey
State Police, and best known for his involvement in the Lindbergh
kidnapping case. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr served as
Commander-In-Chief, United States Central Command, when he led all
coalition forces in the Gulf War. His father, Herbert Norman
Schwarzkopf Sr., was a 1917 graduate of the United States Military
Academy at West Point and a veteran of World War I. His mother was
a housewife from West Virginia who was distantly related to Thomas
Jefferson. The senior Schwarzkopf later became the Superintendent
of the New Jersey State Police, where he worked as a lead
investigator on the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping case. In
January 1952, the younger Schwarzkopf's birth certificate was
amended to make his name "H. Norman Schwarzkopf",
reportedly because his father detested his first name. Born in
Trenton, New Jersey, Schwarzkopf Jr. grew up in the United States
and later in Iran. He was accepted by the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the
United States Army in 1956. After a number of initial training
programs, Schwarzkopf interrupted a stint as an academy teacher,
and served in the Vietnam War first as an adviser to the South
Vietnamese Army and later as a battalion commander. Schwarzkopf
was highly decorated in Vietnam, being awarded three Silver Star
Medals, two Purple Hearts, and the Legion of Merit. Rising through
the ranks after the conflict, he later commanded the U.S. 24th
Infantry Division and was one of the commanders of the Invasion of
Grenada in 1983. Assuming command of United States Central Command
in 1988, Schwarzkopf was called on to respond to the Invasion Of
Kuwait in 1990 by the forces of Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Initially tasked with defending Saudi Arabia from Iraqi
aggression, Schwarzkopf's command eventually grew to an
international force of over 750,000 troops. After diplomatic
relations broke down, he planned and led Operation Desert Storm-an
extended air campaign followed by a highly successful 100-hour
ground offensive-which defeated the Iraqi Army and liberated
Kuwait in early 1991. Schwarzkopf was presented with military
honors. Schwarzkopf retired shortly after the end of the war and
undertook a number of philanthropic ventures, only occasionally
stepping into the political spotlight before his death from
complications of pneumonia in late 2012. A hard-driving military
commander with a strong temper, Schwarzkopf was considered an
exceptional leader by many biographers and was noted for his
abilities as a military diplomat and in dealing with the press.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Oscar
Levant, American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author,
radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian and
actor (d. August 14, 1972) is #born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to
Orthodox Jewish parents who had emigrated from Russia. He was
awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recordings
featuring his piano performances. He was equally famous for his
mordant (showing a sharp or critical quality; biting) character
and witticisms, on the radio and later in movies and television,
as for his music. Oscar Levant died, a lifelong heavy smoker and
longtime pharmaceutical drug user, at his home in Beverly Hills,
California, of a heart attack at age 65. He was discovered by his
wife June when she called him from their bedroom to meet for an
interview with Candice Bergen, who was then a photojournalist.
According to Bergen's memoir titled Knock Wood, she had visited
Levant on the previous day and Knock Wood includes one of her
photographs from that occasion. In the book, Bergen revealed that
Levant had asked her to return the next day to take more
photographs, and she agreed. She drove over with her camera on the
following day, not realizing he had died. Levant is interred in
the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los
Angeles. An apocryphal story about Levant is the old joke that his
epitaph reads, "I told them I was ill." In reality, the
plaque on his crypt states his name, dates of birth and death, and
nothing else. (It was in fact Spike Milligan who wanted his
headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill";
however, when he was buried at St Thomas' churchyard, the
Chichester diocese refused to allow that epitaph.)
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 2003: #DOTD: #RIP: Alan
Bates, English actor (b. February 17, 1934) #dies of pancreatic
cancer aged 69 after going into a coma. He is buried at All
Saints' Church, Bradbourne in Derbyshire, England. Sir Alan Arthur
Bates, CBE was born at the Queen Mary Nursing Home, Darley Abbey,
Derby, England. He came to prominence in the 1960s, when he
appeared in films ranging from the popular children's story
Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind
of Loving. He is also known for his performance with Anthony Quinn
in Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy
Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd and The Fixer, for which he
received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1969, he
starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and
Glenda Jackson. Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An
Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky and in The Rose with Bette Midler, as
well as many television dramas, including The Mayor of
Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My
Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess) and Pack of Lies. He
also appeared on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray,
such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! John
Amos, African American actor, best known for his role as James
Evans Sr. on the CBS television series Good Times (d. August 21,
2024) is #born John Allen Amos Jr. in Newark, New Jersey. Amos's
other television work includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a
recurring role as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace on The West Wing, and
the role of Washington, D.C., Mayor Ethan Baker in the series The
District. Amos has appeared on Broadway and in numerous films in
his five-decade career. He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy
Award and an NAACP Image Award. On film, he has played numerous
supporting roles in movies such as The Beastmaster (1982), Coming
to America (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990) and Coming 2 America (2021).
John Amos died of congestive heart failure at Centinela Hospital
Medical Center in Inglewood, California, aged 84; it is only
announced publicly by his publicist in a statement a full five
weeks later on October 1. His daughter, Shannon, was unaware that
he had died until it was reported by the media. His remains were
cremated nine days after his death; the final disposition of his
ashes are not publicly disclosed.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1968: Splashdowns: The
History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space
Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: The
Discovery And Exploration Of The Solar System: Missions To The
Moon: Project Apollo: Apollo 8: -- Apollo 8 splashes down in the
Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the
Moon. It was the second manned spaceflight mission in the United
States Apollo space program, and became the first manned
spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it
and return safely to Earth. On December 21, they were launched
from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar
trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by
humans. On December 24, the crew of Apollo 8, Commander Frank
Borman and Command Module Pilot James Lovell entered into orbit
around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. The
astronauts orbited ten times over the course of 20 hours, during
which the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast where
they read the first 10 verses from the Book of Genesis. At the
time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever. On
December 25, Apollo 8 performs the very first successful
Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and
spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. The
three-astronaut crew: Borman, Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot
William Anders: became the first humans to: travel beyond low
Earth orbit; see Earth as a whole planet; enter the gravity well
of another celestial body (Earth's moon); orbit another celestial
body (Earth's moon); directly see the far side of the Moon with
their own eyes; witness an Earthrise; escape the gravity of
another celestial body (Earth's moon); and re-enter the
gravitational well of Earth. The 1968 mission, the third flight of
the Saturn V rocket and that rocket's first crewed launch, was
also the first human spaceflight launch from the Kennedy Space
Center, Florida, located adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station. Originally planned as a second Lunar Module/Command
Module test in an elliptical medium Earth orbit in early 1969, the
mission profile was changed in August 1968 to a more ambitious
Command Module-only lunar orbital flight to be flown in December,
because the Lunar Module was not yet ready to make its first
flight. This meant Borman's crew was scheduled to fly two to three
months sooner than originally planned, leaving them a shorter time
for training and preparation, thus placing more demands than usual
on their time and discipline. Apollo 8 took three days to travel
to the Moon. Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for
Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of
landing a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. The Apollo
8 astronauts returned to Earth on December 27, 1968, when their
spacecraft splashed down in the Northern Pacific Ocean. The crew
was named Time magazine's "Men of the Year" for 1968
upon their return.
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 1978: The History Of Spain:
The Monarchy Of Spain (The Spanish Monarchy): The Spanish
Transition To Democracy: -- Spanish King Juan Carlos I gives his
official sanction to the Spanish Constitution that was created on
Halloween October 31, 1978. The constitution was then published in
the Boletin Oficial del Estado (the government gazette of Spain)
on December 29, the date in which it became effective. This
promulgation of the constitution marked the culmination of the
Spanish Transition To Democracy from 40 years of fascist
dictatorship after the death of Francisco Franco. Known in Spain
as the Transition (Spanish: La Transicion) or the Spanish
transition (Spanish: Transicion Espanola), it started on 20
November 1975, the day Francisco Franco died, who had established
a dictatorship after the victory of the Nationalists in the
Spanish Civil War. However, historians disagree on the exact date
the transition was completed; some say it ended after the 1977
general election; while others place it later, when the 1978
Constitution was approved. Others suggest it ended with the
failure of the 1981 attempted coup d'etat. At its latest, the
Transition is said to have ended with the first peaceful transfer
of executive power, after the victory of the Spanish Socialist
Workers' Party (PSOE) in the 1982 general election.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: Don Imus,
radio host and humorist (b. July 23, 1940) #dies in College
Station, Texas at the age of 79 of complications from lung
disease. His body was donated to medical science, specifically
Texas A & M University. Born John Donald Imus Jr. in
Riverside, California to a wealthy family of Welsh, English,
Polish, and Jewish ancestry, Don Imus' nationally syndicated talk
show Imus in the Morning was broadcast throughout the United
States by Cumulus Media Networks. Imus was the earliest shock jock
radio host, pioneering a style of entertainment that is considered
irreverent and, to many, offensive. His programs have been both
popular and controversial throughout his career. He retired in
March 2018 after nearly 50 years on the air.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: From
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Today, December 27, 2025December 27, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: Carrie
Fisher, American actress, writer, and comedian, best known for
playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she
was nominated for four Saturn Awards, whose other film credits
include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her
Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally... (1989),
Soapdish (1991), and The Women (2008) (b. October 21, 1956) #dies
of a sudden cardiac arrest on December 27, 2016, at age 60, four
days after experiencing a medical emergency during a transatlantic
flight from London to Los Angeles. On December 28, 2016, the day
after Fisher's death, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, had a stroke at
the home of her son, Todd, where the family was planning Fisher's
burial arrangements. She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
where she died later that afternoon. According to Todd, Reynolds
had said, "I want to be with Carrie" immediately before
she had the stroke. On January 5, 2017, a joint private memorial
was held for Fisher and Reynolds. Fisher was cremated while her
mother was entombed. A portion of her ashes was placed beside
Reynolds in a crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood
Hills. The remainder of those ashes are held in a giant novelty
Prozac pill. One of her final films, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, was
released on December 15, 2017 and is dedicated to her; however,
Fisher appeared in Star Wars: Episode IX through the use of
unreleased footage from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
Carrie Fisher was born Carrie Frances Fisher at Providence Saint
Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. She was nominated
twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress
in a Comedy Series for her performances on the television series
30 Rock and Catastrophe. She was posthumously made a Disney Legend
in 2017, and in 2018 she was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award for
Best Spoken Word Album. Fisher wrote several semi-autobiographical
novels, including Postcards from the Edge and an autobiographical
one-woman play, and its non-fiction book, Wishful Drinking, based
on the play. She wrote the screenplay for the film version of
Postcards From The Edge which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay nomination, and her one-woman stage show of
Wishful Drinking was filmed for television and received a
nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety
Special. She worked on other writers' screenplays as a script
doctor, including tightening the scripts for Hook (1991), Sister
Act (1992), The Wedding Singer (1998), and many of the films from
the Star Wars franchise, among others. In later years, she earned
praise for speaking publicly about her experiences with bipolar
disorder and drug addiction. Fisher was the daughter of singer
Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her mother and she
appear in Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie
Reynolds, a documentary about their relationship. It premiered at
the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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