Volume 12 , Issue 52

This Day In History

(Dec. 27) -- It was 96 years ago, 27 December 1914, William Jacob and Constance Estella (Warwick) McGill greeted, brought their oldest son, Gene M. McGill into their lives, in Alva Woods county, Oklahoma. Gene McGill made his mark in the Democrat political arena in the 1950's through the 1960's when you could show your differences between political parties and still have respect for each other. It was nothing like it is today. Gene M. McGill died on Father's Day, June, 1986, at the age of 71. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD!

(Dec. 28) --
* 1694 Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.

* 1832 John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Andrew Jackson.

* 1856 Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, was born in Staunton, Va.

* 1846 Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.

* 1897 "Cyrano de Bergerac," a play by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris.

* 1905 The forerunner of the NCAA, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, was founded in New York City.

* 1945 Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.

* 1958 The Baltimore Colts won the NFL championship, defeating the New York Giants 23-17 in overtime at Yankee Stadium, in what has been dubbed the greatest football game ever played.

* 1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.

* 1982 A black man was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead.

* 2005 Former top Enron Corp. accountant Richard Causey pleaded guilty to securities fraud and agreed to help pursue convictions against Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling.

* 2008 The Detroit Lions completed an 0-16 season, the NFL's worst ever, with a 31-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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