Events
1886: Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC.
1929: Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
1954: Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1962: Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1965: Gateway Arch (630' high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
1971: John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
1974: Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
Births
1914: Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher (polio vaccine)
1925: Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)
1936: Charlie Daniels, Wilmington NC, singer (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1943: Randy Newman, rock vocalitst (Short People)
1962: A baby girl was born in a pink hospital
1967: Julia Roberts, actress
