"December 5, 1945 Aircraft squadron lost in the Bermuda Triangle"
"At 2:10 p.m., five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission. Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg that would return them to the naval base. They never returned. Two hours after the flight began, the leader of the squadron, who had been flying in the area for more than six months, reported that his compass and back-up compass had failed and that his position was unknown. The other planes experienced similar instrument malfunctions. Radio facilities on land were contacted to find the location of the lost squadron, but none were successful. After two more hours of confused messages from the fliers, a distorted radio transmission from the squadron leader was heard at 6:20 p.m., apparently calling for his men to prepare to ditch their aircraft simultaneously because of lack of fuel.
By this time, several land radar stations finally determined that Flight 19 was somewhere north of the Bahamas and east of the Florida coast, and at 7:27 p.m. a search and rescue Mariner aircraft took off with a 13-man crew. Three minutes later, the Mariner aircraft radioed to its home base that its mission was underway. The Mariner was never heard from again. Later, there was a report from a tanker cruising off the coast of Florida of a visible explosion seen at 7:50 p.m. The disappearance of the 14 men of Flight 19 and the 13 men of the Mariner led to one of the largest air and seas searches to that date, and hundreds of ships and aircraft combed thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and remote locations within the interior of Florida. No trace of the bodies or aircraft was ever found." http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
December 10,1901:
"The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of his vast fortune be placed in a fund in which the interest would be “annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” Although Nobel offered no public reason for his creation of the prizes, it is widely believed that he did so out of moral regret over the increasingly lethal uses of his inventions in war...." http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-nobel-prizes-awarded
11th December 1946
Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor born in West Java. Many of the women he shagged in hotel rooms, after concerts in which he sang pious lyrics that condemned such behaviour, were probably not born for another 30-40 years.
12th December
1753 Adjutant of Virginia, George Washington, delivered an ultimatum to the commanders of the French military forces at Fort Le Boeuf, near Lake Erie, reaffirming Britain’s claim to the entire valley of the Ohio River . Washington had been dispatched by Governor Robert Dinwiddie to warn the French that they were trespassing on British territory.
"On December 18, 1620, the British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony. The famous Mayflower story began in 1606, when a group of reform-minded Puritans in Nottinghamshire, England, founded their own church, separate from the state-sanctioned Church of England. Accused of treason, they were forced to leave the country and settle in the more tolerant Netherlands.
After 12 years of struggling to adapt and make a decent living, the group sought financial backing from some London merchants to set up a colony in America. On September 6, 1620, 102 passengers–dubbed Pilgrims by William Bradford, a passenger who would become the first governor of Plymouth Colony–crowded on the Mayflower to begin the long, hard journey to a new life in the New World." http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
19th December 1973
Curtis Hixon Convention Hall, Tampa, Florida
Set 1:
Tennessee Jed
Me And My Uncle
Don't Ease Me In
Looks Like Rain
They Love Each Other
Me And Bobby McGee
Brown-Eyed Women
Beat It On Down The Line
Peggy-O
El Paso
Deal
Jack Straw
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Set 2:
Promised Land
Bertha
Greatest Story Ever Told
Row Jimmy
WRS Prelude
WRS Part 1
Let It Grow
Dark Star
Drums
Eyes Of The World
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Encore:
Uncle John's Band