Nutbush City Limits. "No whiskey for sale".

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.

1787 ~ Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

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.

1830 years of inaction. A new record?

70th anniversary of Pearl Harbour, which brought the US into the War only a couple of years late. Would you believe that there were powerful groups in the USA which tried to get the US to enter the War on the German side? Scary stuff.

December 8th
 

1542 ~ Birthday of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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 ending the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.

1993 ~ President Clinton signed U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

December 9th
 

1608 ~ Birthday of John Milton, Poet & Writer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2006 ~ Death of Al Shugart, Computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology.

December 13th
 

1642 ~ Abel Janszoon Tasman reached New Zealand.

1784 ~ Death of Samuel Johnson, Essayist.

1818 ~ Birthday of Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady.

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.

2002 ~ Death of Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician (The Lovin' Spoonful).

2003 ~ Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured near Tikrit.

2006 ~ The Chinese River Dolphin was declared extinct.

December 14th
 

1546 ~ Birthday of Tycho Brahe, Astronomer.

1900 ~ Max Planck published his study of the quantum theory.

1911 ~ First expedition reached the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen.

1939 ~ The 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.

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.

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.

1991 ~ Death of Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Soviet sniper.

1994 ~ Netscape Navigator 1.0 first released.

1991 ~ Death of Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Soviet sniper.

He was not a man to cross.

December 16th
 

1689 ~ The English Bill of Rights adopted.

1770 ~ Birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer. It's time for a Beethoven Birthday Bash!

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, South American Liberator.

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.