Men Who Made History Today

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Men Who Made History Today

By James Hughes

Men who made History1822        Dec 1, Franz Liszt (11) made his debut as a pianist for Isabella Colbran. 1835        Dec 1, Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales. 1862        Dec 1, President Lincoln gave the State of the Union message to the 37th Congress. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present… As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.” 1868        Dec 1, John D. Rockefeller began anti oil war. 1988        Dec 1, Carlos Salinas de Gortari was sworn in as president of Mexico. He succeeded Pres. Miguel de la Madrid. One of his first acts was to turn Agualeguas, the lost family patrimony, into his official retreat. 1997        Dec 1, Pres. Clinton signed the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act into law.1999        Dec 1, African leaders chose Nelson Mandela as the new mediator for talks on ending the 6-year civil war in Burundi. 2002        Dec 1, Edward Latimer “Ned” Beach (b.1918), former Navy captain and author, died at age 84. His books included “Run Silent, Run Deep” (1955), “Around the World Submerged” (1962) and “Scapegoats! A Defense of Kimmel and short at Pearl Harbor.” 2002        Dec 1, Prof. Saburo Ienaga, Japanese historian, died at age 89. He had led battles against the government screening of textbooks.2004        Dec 1, US President George W. Bush arrived in Halifax to thank Atlantic Canadians for helping thousands of stranded Americans three years ago and to deliver a speech expected to outline his foreign policy goals for the next four years. 2004        Dec 1, Prince Bernhard (93), father of Queen Beatrix, died in Utrecht. It was soon reported that he had acknowledged in a series of secret interviews 2 illegitimate children and the acceptance of bribes in 1976 from Lockheed to persuade the Dutch government to purchase its planes. The money was reportedly passed to charities. 2006        Dec 1, In Nigeria OPEC President Edmund Daukoru said that he expects the OPEC oil export group to cut its output quota by at least half a million barrels per day when it meets on December 14. 2007        Dec 1, Pres. Bush sent a letter, his first, to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il urging him to fully disclose his nuclear programs by the end of the year. 2008        Dec 1, President-elect Barack Obama announced that Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary. Obama picked former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. 2010        Dec 1, Harold Martin Smith (43), a man wanted in the Nov 16 slaying of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen (64), killed himself in the lobby of a dreary Los Angeles hotel as police closed in to question him. 2013        Dec 1, Angelo Houssou, a Benin judge, who angered the president of the West African nation, said he fled the country over the weekend to seek political asylum in the United States. 2014        Dec 1, In West Virginia Jody Lee Hunt (39) of Westover was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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