January 1

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Happy Birthdaze!

December 31

  • New Years Eve
  • Blitz of tobacco ads on radio and television [they are to be banned from the airwaves the next day], 1970
  • Donna Summer's Birthday, 1948
  • John Denver's Birthday, 1943
  • Ben Kingsley's Birthday, 1943
  • Ellis Island Opens, 1890
  • George C. Marshall's Birthday, 1880
  • December 30

  • Ben Johnson's Birthday, 1961
  • Tracey Ullman's Birthday, 1959
  • Davy Jones' Birthday, 1946
  • Sandy Koufax's Birthday, 1935
  • Bo Diddley's Birthday, 1928
  • Bert Parks' Birthday, 1914
  • Simon Guggenheim's Birthday, 1867
  • Rudyard Kipling's Birthday, 1865
  • Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks in storm, 1862