Actress Pauline Moore dies
2001 — Actress Pauline Moore, who starred in 25 films between 1937 and 1941, has died of Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was 87. Moore, both Charlie Chan’s sidekick and Roy Rogers’ leading lady, died of the fatal neuromuscular disease. Moore played teacher Ella in Heidi in 1937, Lady Constance in The Three Musketeers in 1939 and the psychic Eve Cairo in Charlie Chan at Treasure Island in 1939. From 1956 through 1959, after a 15-year hiatus to raise a family and pursue other interests, Moore appeared in TV shows including Death Valley Days and Four-Star Playhouse. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she began her acting career with the Edna Preston stock company. By 1932, Moore was in New York appearing in Florenz Ziegfeld’s last show, Ha Cha. She also worked as a model, appearing on the covers of Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan and McCall’s. Moore was also in the Hostess Girl painting on a 1934 Coca-Cola tray now considered highly collectible.
December 7
1895 - Ethiopians defeat Italians at Ambia Alagi, Abyssinia.
1901 - England and Italy agree on settling Sudan frontier.
1917 - The US declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921 - Austria and the US resume diplomatic relations.
1922 - Northern Ireland votes for non-alignment in Irish Free State.
1941 - Japanese air forces attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1949 - Nationalist government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, fleeing the Communist takeover of mainland China, establishes its seat of government in Taiwan.
1971 - Unmanned Soviet space capsule sends back radio and television signals from Mars.
1981 - Spain becomes a member of the Nato alliance.
1982 - Wadi Al Beih dam and the Khat mineral springs open in Ras Al Khaimah.
1988 - An estimated 100,000 people are killed or buried alive in a powerful earthquake in northern Armenia.
1989 - The Republic of Lithuania abolishes constitutional guarantee of communist supremacy.
1993 - Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Africa’s longest-serving ruler, dies.
1995 - Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft reaches Jupiter after a 6-year journey.
1996 - The Columbia space shuttle returns to Earth after nearly 18 days, ending the longest space shuttle flight ever.
2001 - The Taliban regime in Afghanistan surrenders its final bastion in Kandahar.
2002 - For the first time, Iraqi President Saddam Hussain apologises for invading Kuwait in 1990.
2004 - Hamid Karzai is sworn in as the first popularly elected president of Afghanistan.
2007 - The Dubai International Financial Exchange lists its first non-dollar security in the form of Jebel Ali Free Zone’s Dh7.5 billion local currency sukuk.
2008 - Pakistani troops raid a militant camp and arrest Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, a suspected mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
2012 - Hamas leader Khalid Mesha’al arrives in the Gaza Strip, ending 45 years of exile.
2014 - The International Cricket Council bans Pakistani off-spinner Mohammad Hafeez after he failed a test on his action.
