Once Upon A Time – Dec. 26 – 1982 – TIME’s Man Of The Year Is A Computer

Once Upon A Time – Dec. 26 – 1982 – TIME’s Man Of The Year Is A Computer

1492 1st Spanish settlement La Navidad in the New World is founded by Christopher Columbus (modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas in Haiti).

1790 Ordination of Sattyanadan Pillai (also spelled Satyanathan), the first Tamil missionary of the Lutheran Church in India. Sattyanadan will serve as pastor-teacher in Tirunelveli and will be one of the leaders in a movement of mass conversion of Indians to Christianity.

1792 Trial of French King Louis XVI, court hears the kings defense brought by Raymond Desèze.

1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins [O.S. 14 December].

1952 Demos Shakarian, founder of the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International, sees so little success that he announces the meeting of this date will be the last. However, he has a vision the night before of dead men in chains coming to life and this changes his mind. From that day things change and the fellowship grows into a huge international movement with over one thousand chapters world wide and results in the conversion of hundreds of thousands of people.

2004 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and edges of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1940 “The Philadelphia Story” film directed by George Cukor, based on the Broadway play of the same name, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart, is released (Academy Awards Best Actor 1941).

Today in Music
1966 Jimi Hendrix writes “Purple Haze” backstage at the Upper Cut Club, London.

Today in Sport
1860 First ever inter-club football match between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.

Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
1982 TIME’s Man of the Year is a computer.