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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 27
- 150th: 1874 - At Palmar de Junco, a Havanan team plays Matanzas in the first documented baseball game played in Cuba. The game is called after seven innings due to darkness with Havana leading, 51-9.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of James A McClure; American politician (Senator-Republican-Idaho).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Mokta Ould Daddah; President of Mauritania (1961-78).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Wouter Eijkelemboom; Dutch architect (Holy-hospital, Vlaardingen).
- 100th: 1924 - William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at age 68.
- 90th: 1934 - First youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Massachusetts).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Larisssa Latynina in Ukraine, USSR; gymnast (Olympics-gold-1956, 1960, 1964).
- 90th: 1934 - Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Mick Jones; rock guitarist (Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is").
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Tracy Nelson in Madison, Wisconsin, USA; singer ("In The Here And Now").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of David Tikolo; Kenyan cricket batsman (1996 World Cup).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Randy Kirk; NFL outside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Steve Wallace; NFL tackle (San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs).
- 60th: 1964 - Cleveland Browns beat Baltimore Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game.
- 50th: 1974 - 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (Running Back).
- 50th: 1974 - Amy Vanderbilt, US author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at age 66.
- 50th: 1974 - Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years.
- 50th: 1974 - FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional/Sandinista National Liberation Front) seizes government hostages at a private Managua party.
- 50th: 1974 - Raymond Glenn, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones), dies at age 76.
- 50th: 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 40th: 1984 - San Diego Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with New York Yankees.
- 30th: 1994 - Hans Berghuis, author/poet (Kleitabletten), dies at age 70.
- 30th: 1994 - Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister (1966-72), dies at age 83.
- 30th: 1994 - Peter Barker Howard May, cricket player (4537 runs-England 1951-61), dies at age 64.
- 30th: 1994 - Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at age 82.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Fanny Craddock, British TV chef and restaurant critic (born 1909).
- 25th: 1999 - A Maltese-registered tanker runs aground at the mouth of the Bosporus strait across Istanbul, Turkey.
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