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December 17th
1778 ~ Birthday of Humphry Davy, chemist.
1830 ~ Death of Simón Bolívar, Latin American politician & Activist.
1843 ~ ”A Christmas Carol”, a fictional short story 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 ~ U.S. Air Force announced that its UFO investigations found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1973 ~ The American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
1982 ~ ”Tootsie” opened in theaters.
1989 ~ Brazil held its first free election in 25 years.
1989 ~ The first half-hour length episode of The Simpsons debuted with their Christmas special, "Simpsons Roasting Over an Open Fire".
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12-18-2004, 07:47 AM
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December 18th
1642 ~ Abel Tasman landed at Mohua Golden Bay becoming the first European in New Zealand.
1737 ~ Death of Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker.
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1863 ~ Birthday of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914)
1865 ~ Slavery was abolished in the United States, with the passing of the 13th Amendment.
1912 ~ Piltdown Man "discovered"
1916 ~ Battle of Verdun ended, with an estimated 700,000 casualties.
1936 ~ Death of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist.
1946 ~ Birthday of Steven Spielberg, movie director.
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.
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12-19-2004, 11:47 AM
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December 19th
1732 ~ 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.
1961 ~ The Indian Army invaded the Portuguese colony of Goa.
1962 ~ Nyasaland seceded from Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
1974 ~ The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, went on sale.
1979 ~ ”Kramer vs. Kramer” opened in theaters, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.
1984 ~ The United Kingdom and People's Republic of China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which returned Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
1988 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives passed articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.
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12-20-2004, 06:26 AM
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December 20th
1833 ~ Birthday of Samuel Mudd, physician, possible conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1860 ~ South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States.
1901 ~ Birthday of Robert Van de Graaff, Physicist & Inventor.
1915 ~ Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
1968 ~ Death of John Steinbeck, writer.
1982 ~ Death of Artur Rubinstein, musician.
1995 ~ NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1996 ~ Death of Carl Sagan, Astronomer & Writer.
1999 ~ Vermont's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.
1999 ~ Macau was returned to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
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12-21-2004, 06:30 AM
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December 21st
1118 ~ Birthday of Thomas Becket, lord chancellor and archbishop of Canterbury.
1375 ~ Death of Giovanni Boccaccio, writer.
1804 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Disraeli, Politician & Writer.
1872 ~ HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography.
1898 ~ Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
1914 ~ First feature-length silent film comedy, “Tillie's Punctured Romance”, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, was released.
1940 ~ Death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Writer.
1945 ~ Death of George S. Patton, U.S. General.
1988 ~ A terrorist bomb exploded in Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270, including 11 on the ground.
1999 ~ The Spanish Civil Guard intercepted a Madrid-bound van driven by ETA and loaded with 950 kg of explosives. The next day, another van loaded with 750 kg was found not far from there. Shortly after 9/11, ETA confirmed their plan had been to blow down Torre Picasso.
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12-22-2004, 06:38 AM
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December 22nd
1858 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Puccini, Composer.
1880 ~ Death of George Eliot, Writer
1898 ~ The Dreyfus affair began in France when Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason.
1939 ~ Death of Ma Rainey, blues singer.
1944 ~ German forces demanded the surrender of Allied troops at Bastogne, Belgium.
1989 ~ Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist dictatorship.
1989 ~ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opened after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 ~ Lech Wałęsa sworn in as President of Poland.
2001 ~ Birthday of Cc the cat, first cloned pet.
2001 ~ Richard Reid tried to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.
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12-23-2004, 11:45 AM
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December 23rd
1790 ~ Birthday of Jean François Champollion, Egyptologist. He deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
1823 ~ “A Visit From St. Nicholas”, by Clement Clarke Moore, was first published
1834 ~ Death of Thomas Malthus, Demographer and Economist
1939 ~ Death of Anthony Fokker, aircraft manufacturer.
1947 ~ The transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1953 ~ Death of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader.
1954 ~ The first organ transplant of a kidney was performed by Doctors Murray and Harrison in Boston. Dr. Murray would later win a Nobel prize for his pioneering work.
1979 ~ Soviet military occupies Kabul, Afghanistan.
2012 ~ The Mayan calendar comes to an end (may also be December 21). This day was predicted by the Mayans to be when life on Earth is going to end.
Feastdays & Holidays
Fans of Seinfeld - Festivus (for the restofus) held.
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December 24th
1491 ~ Birthday of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order)
1818 ~ Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber.
1818 ~ Birthday of James Prescott Joule, Physicist.
1910 ~ Birthday of Fritz Leiber, Science Fiction writer.
1914 ~ Birthday of John Muir, Naturalist.
1957 ~ Birthday of Hamid Karzai, first democratically elected President of Afghanistan.
1968 ~ The crew of the USS Pueblo was released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying.
1974 ~ Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia.
2003 ~ The Spanish police prevented ETA from detonating 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 PM inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
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December 25th
800 ~ Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
1066 ~ Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
1223 ~ Saint Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene.
1642 ~ Birthday of Sir Isaac Newton, physicist and mathematician.
1821 ~ Birthday of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.
1914 ~ World War I: The "Christmas truce" began.
1918 ~ Birthday of Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president.
1938 ~ Birthday of Karel Čapek, Czech author, inventor of the word robot.
1989 ~ Death of Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed).
1991 ~ Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day).
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December 26th
1620 ~ Elizabeth Bathory's crimes were uncovered.
1791 ~ Birthday of Charles Babbage, Mathematician and designer of computing machines.
1792 ~ Final trial of Louis XVI of France began in Paris.
1890 ~ Death of Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist.
1893 ~ Birthday of Mao Zedong, Chinese Politician.
1925 ~ Turkey adopted the Gregorian Calendar.
1933 ~ FM radio was patented.
1966 ~ The first Kwanzaa was celebrated.
1982 ~ TIME magazine's “Man of the Year” was for the first time given to a non-human; a computer.
1998 ~ Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patroled the northern and southern "no-fly zones".
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December 27th
1571 ~ Birthday of Johannes Kepler, astronomer.
1822 ~ Birthday of Louis Pasteur, Scientist.
1831 ~ Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
1904 ~ James Barrie's play Peter Pan premiers in London.
1943 ~ Birthday of Cokie Roberts, journalist.
1949 ~ Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted Indonesia sovereignty.
1978 ~ Spain became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
1985 ~ Naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
1985 ~ Palestinian guerrillas killed twenty people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
2002 ~ Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
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January1st
45 BC ~ 45 BC - Julian calendar went into effect.
404 ~ Last known gladiator competition in Rome.
1752 ~ Birthday of Betsy Ross, American seamstress.
1801 ~ Discovery of 1 Ceres, first known asteroid.
1879 ~ Birthday of E. M. Forster, English novelist.
1892 ~ Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States.
1894 ~ Birthday of Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician
1901 ~ Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia (Federation).
1983 ~ The ARPANET officially changed to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
2002 ~ Euro banknotes and coins became legal tender.
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January 2nd
1492 ~ Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrendered.
1727 ~ Birthday of James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War.
1757 ~ The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
1872 ~ Brigham Young was arrested for bigamy (25 wives).
1882 ~ John D. Rockefeller united his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
1901 ~ Female fair-ground boxer, Mrs. Grace O'Malley, mother of 6, from Great Howard street, Liverpool, KO'ed twelve Yorkshire miners in an all comers bout, with a prize purse of five shillings
1904 ~ Death of James Longstreet, Confederate general.
1920 ~ Birthday of Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction author.
1929 ~ Canada and the United States agreed on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
1942 ~ World War II: Manila was captured by Japanese forces.
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January 3rd
106 B.C. ~ Birthday of Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher.
1521 ~ Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.
1833 ~ Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1892 ~ Birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-born writer and philologist.
1899 ~ The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in the New York Times.
1925 ~ Benito Mussolini announced that he was taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1945 ~ Birthday of Stephen Stills, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
1956 ~ Birthday of Mel Gibson, Australian actor and director.
1979 ~ Death of Conrad Hilton, American hotelier.
1993 ~ In Moscow, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
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January 4th
1643 ~ Birthday of Isaac Newton, English scientist and philosopher.
1710 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Composer.
1785 ~ Birthday of Jakob Grimm, German philologist, one half of the Brothers Grimm.
1809 ~ Birthday of Louis Braille, Inventor of a writing system for the blind.
1847 ~ Samuel Colt sold his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1884 ~ The Fabian Society was founded in London.
1948 ~ Burma gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 ~ Death of Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist.
1965 ~ Death of T. S. Eliot, Anglo-American poet.
1967 ~ Death of Donald Campbell when his jet-powered “Bluebird K7” crashed during an attempt to break the water speed record.
2004 ~ Spirit, the first of two NASA Mars Rovers, landed successfully on Mars.
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