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December 6th
1884 ~ The Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, banning slavery, was ratified.
1889 ~ Death of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. 1917 ~ A munitions explosion killed more than 1,900 people and destroyed part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1920 ~ Birthday of Dave Brubeck, jazz musician. 1929 ~ Birthday of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor. 1947 ~ Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Truman. 1957 ~ The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit, Vanguard TV3, was renamed 'Flopnik'. 1989 ~ Marc Lépine killed 14 women in Montreal, Quebec. 1992 ~ In Ayodhya, India, Hindus demolished the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque. 2002 ~ Death of Philip Berrigan, civil rights activist. |
December 7th
43 BC ~ Death of Cicero, Roman politician and author.
1928 ~ Birthday of Noam Chomsky, Linguist. 1941 ~ The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into World War II. 1963 ~ Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game. 1970 ~ Death of Rube Goldberg, best known for his cartoons depicting Rube Goldberg machines. 1971 ~ Birthday of Chasey Lain, Porn Actress. 1972 ~ Launch of Apollo 17, the last manned lunar landing mission. 1975 ~ Indonesia invaded East Timor. 1993 ~ Death of Wolfgang Paul, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1989. 1999 ~ The beginning of the end of Napster. The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against it, alleging copyright infringement. |
December 8th
1864 ~ Death of George Boole, Mathematician.
1925 ~ Birthday of Sammy Davis Jr., Actor & Singer. 1939 ~ Birthday of James Galway, Irish flutist. 1941 ~ The U.S. entered World War II when Congress declared war against Japan. 1953 ~ President Eisenhower gave the "Atoms for Peace" speech. 1978 ~ Death of Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel. 1980 ~ Mark Chapman murdered former Beatle John Lennon. 1991 ~ Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine signed an agreement marking the end of the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. 1993 ~ U.S. participation in The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed into law by President Clinton. 2010 ~ The first operational solar-sail spacecraft, IKAROS, passed the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km. |
December 9th
1868 ~ Birthday of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1918.
1906 ~ Birthday of Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer. 1961 ~ Tanganyika became independent from the UK. 1961 ~ Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel. 1968 ~ First demonstration of the computer mouse. The mainframe mouse was developed later. 1979 ~ Death of Archbishop Sheen, arguably the first televangelist. 1992 ~ Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation. 1993 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope was repaired by astronauts of STS-61. 1996 ~ Death of Mary Leakey, Archeologist & Anthropologist. 2004 ~ Canada's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual marriage was constitutional.[/QUOTE] |
December 10th
1815 ~ Birthday of Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer.
1830 ~ Birthday of Emily Dickinson, Poet. 1896 ~ Death of Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize. 1907 ~ President Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1941 ~ Japanese forces landed in the Philippines, captured Guam and sank the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse. 1948 ~ the U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 1953 ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1978 ~ Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2002 ~ The High Court of Australia handed down its judgment in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones. 2005 ~ Death of Richard Pryor, comedian & actor. |
December 11th
1725 ~ Birthday of George Mason, "Father of the Bill of Rights".
1803 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer. 1882 ~ Birthday of Max Born, physicist and 1954 Nobel laureate. 1931 ~ The Statute of Westminster gave legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland. 1941 ~ Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. 1969 ~ Birthday of Vishwanathan Anand, World Chess Champion. 1981 ~ Birthday of Nikki Benz, Porn Actress. 1994 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered Russian troops into Chechnya. 1997 ~ The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was made available for signature. 2001 ~ The People's Republic of China joined the World Trade Organization. |
December 12th
1531 ~ Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City.
1911 ~ The capital of India moved from Calcutta to New Delhi. 1915 ~ Birthday of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor. 1927 ~ Birthday of Robert Noyce, one of the men credited with the invention of the integrated circuit. 1963 ~ Kenya gained its independence from the UK. Uhuru! 1967 ~ Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones avoided a prison term for narcotics. 1979 ~ Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe. 1999 ~ Death of Joseph Heller, Author. 2000 ~ The U.S.Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore. 2006 ~ Death of Peter Boyle, Actor. |
December 13th
1642 ~ Abel Janszoon Tasman reached New Zealand.
1784 ~ Death of Samuel Johnson, Essayist. 1818 ~ Birthday of Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady. 1925 ~ Birthday of Dick Van Dyke, Actor & Comedian. 1939 ~ The Admiral Graf Spee engaged Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate. 1945 ~ Execution of Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal. 1981 ~ Martial law imposed in Poland to try to control the Solidarity labor movement. 1996 ~ Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. 2003 ~ Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured near Tikrit. 2006 ~ The Chinese River Dolphin was declared extinct. |
December 14th
1900 ~ Max Planck published his study of the quantum theory.
1911 ~ First expedition reached the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen. 1939 ~ USSR was expelled from the League of Nations. 1946 ~ The United Nations General Assembly voted to establish the U.N. headquarters in New York City. 1962 ~ Birthday of Ginger Lynn Allen, Porn Actress. 1981 ~ Israel annexed the Golan Heights. 1984 ~ Birthday of Krissy Lynn, Porn Actress. 1985 ~ Death of Roger Maris, NYY Home Run King. 1989 ~ Death of Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. 1995 ~ The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Yugoslav wars. |
December 15th
1791 ~ The U.S. Bill of Rights ratified.
1890 ~ Death of Sitting Bull, leader of Lakota tribe. 1916 ~ France defeated Germany in Battle of Verdun. 1916 ~ Birthday of Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, co-recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contribution to the elucidation of the structure of DNA. 1919 ~ Birthday of Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site. 1958 ~ Death of Wolfgang Pauli, Physicist. 1961 ~ An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentenced Adolph Eichmann to death. 1966 ~ Death of Walt Disney, Animator & Cartoonist. 1982 ~ Spain reopened the border with Gibraltar. 1994 ~ Netscape Navigator 1.0 first released. |
December 16th
1689 ~ The English Bill of Rights adopted.
1770 ~ Birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer. 1775 ~ Birthday of Jane Austen, Writer. 1893 ~ World premiere of Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony". 1901 ~ Birthday of Margaret Mead, Anthropologist. 1917 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Writer. 1944 ~ The Battle of the Bulge began. 1944 ~ A V-2 rocket hit the Rex Cinema in Antwerp killing 567 people. 1950 ~ President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight “Communist imperialism”. 1998 ~ President Clinton ordered a sustained series of air strikes against Iraq by American and British forces in response to Saddam Hussein's continued defiance of UN weapons inspectors. 2007 ~ Death of Dan Fogelberg, Singer & Songwriter. |
December 17th
1778 ~ Birthday of Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist & physicist.
1830 ~ Death of Simón Bolívar, Latin American politician & Activist. 1843 ~ A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published. 1903 ~ The first controlled, powered heavier-than-air flight occurred when the Wright brothers took to the air, both of them twice at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1961 ~ India seized Goa from Portugal. 1969 ~ The USAF, in closing Project Blue Book, announced that its UFO investigations found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft. 1976 ~ Birthday of Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born Porn Actress. 1979 ~ Birthday of Jaimee Foxworth, mainstrean & Porn Actress. 1982 ~ ”Tootsie” opened in theaters. 1989 ~ The pilot episode of The Simpsons aired in the U.S. |
December 18th
1737 ~ Death of Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker.
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer. 1892 ~ The premiere performance of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" in Saint Petersburg, Russia 1912 ~ Official presentation of the discovery of Piltdown Man. 1936 ~ Death of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist. 1957 ~ The first U.S. civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity went online. 1989 ~ The British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock dropped its policy on trade union closed shops. 1996 ~ "Ebonics" was declared a language or dialect by the outgoing school board of Oakland, California, whose vote was overturned by the incoming board. The Clinton administration declared "black English" a form of slang that did not belong in the classroom. 2002 ~ California Governor Grey Davis announced that the state would face a budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier. The budget issue was used to support his 2003 recall from office. 2006 ~ Death of Joseph Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera, creators of The Flintstones, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs, and Yogi Bear. |
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December 19th
1733 ~ Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanack.
1848 ~ Death of Emily Brontë, Author. 1888 ~ Birthday of Fritz Reiner, Conductor. 1906 ~ Birthday of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician. 1971 ~ Birthday of Tiffany Towers, Porn Actress. 1979 ~ ”Kramer vs. Kramer”, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, opened in theaters. 1984 ~ The UK and People's Republic of China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which returned Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. 1997 ~ "Titanic" the highest-grossing movie of all-time, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, opened in theaters. 1988 ~ The House of Representatives passed articles of impeachment against President Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal. 2003 ~ Libya announced that it would begin to destroy its weapons of mass destruction. |
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