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December 3rd
1815 ~ Death of John Carroll - First Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
1857 ~ Birthday of Joseph Conrad, Writer. 1894 ~ Death of Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer. 1919 ~ Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Painter. 1947 ~ ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway. 1967 ~ At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, Lewis Washkansky became the first human to receive a heart transplant. The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard. 1984 ~ Bhopal Disaster: A leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed nearly 3,000 people in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. 1989 ~ Formal end of the Cold War. 1999 ~ NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander just before it entered the Martian atmosphere. 1999 ~ Death of Madeline Kahn, Actress & Comedian. |
December 4th
1110 ~ The Crusaders captured Sidon.
1642 ~ Death of Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman. 1674 ~ Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan which would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois. 1679 ~ Death of Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher. 1849 ~ Birthday of Crazy Horse, American Indian leader. 1872 ~ The Mary Celeste was found by the British brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged. 1945 ~ The U.S. Senate approved United States participation in the United Nations. 1976 ~ Death of Benjamin Britten, Composer. 1980 ~ Led Zeppelin announced its breakup. 1981 ~ Birthday of Courtney Cummz, Porn actress. |
December 5th
1791 ~ Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.
1847 ~ Jefferson Davis was elected to the U.S. Senate. 1890 ~ Birthday of Fritz Lang, film director. 1901 ~ Birthday of Werner Heisenberg, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1932. 1926 ~ Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, debuted. 1933 ~ Prohibition ended: The Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This overturned the 18th Amendment, which had outlawed the inter-state sale of alcohol. 1969 ~ Life Magazine reported the My Lai Massacre. 1995 ~ The Sri Lankan armed forces took Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers. 2006 ~ Death of David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster. 2010 ~ Death of John Leslie, Porn Actor and filmmaker. |
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
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. 2006 ~ A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London. |
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 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). 2010 ~ The Japanese solar-sail demonstration spacecraft IKAROS passed Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km. |
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. 2004 ~ Canada's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual marriage was constitutional. 2012 ~ Death of Riccardo Schicchi, Italian porn producer. |
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, former 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. 1972 ~ Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final EVA of Apollo 17. They are, to date, the last men to walk on the Moon. 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. |
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 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. |
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, 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. |
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