** Count of Holland

** Holland is liberated by British and Canadian troops.

** Lancelot Holland, British admiral ( d. 1941 )

** Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen, Holland

** The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River linking New Jersey with New York City.

** Margaret Holland, English noblewoman ( d. 1429 )

** Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician ( executed ) ( b. 1374 )

** Philemon Holland, English translator ( d. 1637 )

** Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent ( d. 1397 )

** John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter ( d. 1400 )

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

** Holland Elementary School-( K-05 )-Springfield

** 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion ( 75mm Normandy, Holland, Germany / 105mm Italy )

** 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion ( 75mm Italy / 105mm Normandy, Holland, Germany )

** North Holland

** South Holland

** 1961: Rosemarie Frankland ( United Kingdom ) crowned 1962: Catharina Lodders ( Holland ) in London, UK.

** Second District: Blacksluice – Holland Fen ;

** 2 battalions each of Holland, 2nd Nassau, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt Erbprinz Regts., 1 bn.

** The newly-formed Netherlands Chamber Orchestra gives its first performance at the Holland Festival.

** James Farber ( engineer / mixer ), Dave Holland, Louise Holland ( producers ) & the Dave Holland Big Band for What Goes Around

** Anita Baker, Randy Holland and Skip Scarborough for " Giving You the Best That I Got "

** Vietnam War: United States National Security Council members, including Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and Maxwell Taylor, agree to recommend a plan for a 2-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam, to President Lyndon B. Johnson.

** Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer

** Taylor Cole, American actress and model

** Taylor Handley, American actor

** Rachael Taylor, Australian actress

** Taylor Schilling, American actress

** Richard Taylor, American Confederate general ( d. 1879 )

** Taylor Momsen, American actress

** Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player

** Maxwell Taylor, American general ( died 1987 )

** Laurette Taylor, American actress ( b. 1884 )

** Morgan Taylor, American athlete ( d. 1975 )

** Robert Lewis Taylor, American author ( b. 1912 )

** Richard E. Taylor, Canadian-born physicist, Nobel laureate

** Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica.

** Taylor Hicks, American singer

** Lawrence Taylor, American football player

** Phil Taylor, English darts player

** A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war ( they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam ).

** Martin Taylor, footballer coach

** U. S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness ; no trace of arsenic is found.

** Taylor Gun-Jin Wang, Chinese-American astronaut

** Krissy Taylor, American model ( d. 1995 )

** Kent Taylor, American actor ( b. 1907 )