Saturday History
By Andrews McMeel Syndicate
Today is the 354th day of 2020 and the 89th day of autumn.
TODAY’S HISTORY:
— In 1777, the Continental Army under George Washington set up winter quarters in Valley Forge, Pa.
— In 1932, the first BBC World Service radio broadcast aired, as “Empire Service.”
— In 1998, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton.
— In 2011, North Korea announced that dictator Kim Jong Il had died two days earlier.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), historian; Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet leader; Jean Genet (1910-1986), author; Edith Piaf (1915-1963), singer/actress; Cecily Tyson (1924-), actress; Al Kaline (1934-2020), baseball player; Richard Leakey (1944-), paleoanthropologist; Robert Urich (1946-2002), actor; Reggie White (1961-2004), football player; Criss Angel (1967-), magician; Tyson Beckford (1970-), model; Alyssa Milano (1972-), actress; Warren Sapp (1972-), football player; Jake Gyllenhaal (1980-), actor.
TODAY’S FACT: Cecily Tyson, born on this day in 1924, was the first African American woman to receive an honorary Oscar, awarded in November 2018.
TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1980, Brigham Young University’s football team, down 20 points with three minutes to play, staged an improbable comeback to defeat Southern Methodist University in the Holiday Bowl, 46-45.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.” — Cecily Tyson
TODAY’S NUMBER: 12 — astronauts in the Apollo program who set foot on the moon’s surface. The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, returned to Earth on this day in 1972.
TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (Dec. 14) and first quarter moon (Dec. 21).
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