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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/09 at 9:39 am
December 5th 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 2:57 am
December 6th 1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now Quito, Ecuador.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 2:58 am
December 6th 1768 – The first weekly installment of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:00 am
December 6th 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:00 am
December 6th 1917 – A ship in Halifax Harbour carrying trinitrotoluene (TNT) and picric acid caught fire after a collision with another ship and exploded, devastating Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:01 am
December 6th 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed and then came into force exactly one year to the day later, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:01 am
December 6th 1989 – Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine embarked on a massacre, killing fourteen women, and wounding ten other women and four men, before committing suicide at École Polytechnique in Montreal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:01 am
December 6th 1060 – Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:03 am
December 6th 1648 – Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:04 am
December 6th 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:04 am
December 6th 1956 – A water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/09 at 3:05 am
December 6th 1975 – Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:49 am
December 7th 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Because of the time difference due to the International Date Line, the events of December 8 occurred while the date was still December 7 to the east of this line.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:50 am
December 7th 43 BC – Cicero, widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was assassinated.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:50 am
December 7th 1724 – In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor and nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between Protestants and Catholics.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:50 am
December 7th 1787 – Delaware became the first U.S. state to ratify the United States Constitution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:51 am
December 7th 1815 – Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris' Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon Bonaparte.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:52 am
1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble" the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:52 am
1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble" the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg/100px-The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:53 am
December 7th 1988 – An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.9 struck the Spitak region of Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union, killing at least 25,000 people
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:53 am
December 7th 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:54 am
December 7th 1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:55 am
December 7th 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:55 am
December 7th 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 1:57 am
December 7th 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
December 7th 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Because of the time difference due to the International Date Line, the events of December 8 occurred while the date was still December 7 to the east of this line. I see a connection here.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 12/07/09 at 1:59 am
I see a connection here.
Dec 7th was a busy day in history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/09 at 2:03 am
Dec 7th was a busy day in history.
...and there is more.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:43 am
December 8th 1609 – Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana opened its reading room to the public, becoming the second public library in Europe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:43 am
December 8th 1941 – The Holocaust: The Chelmno extermination camp in Poland, the first such Nazi camp to kill the Jews of the Ghetto Litzmannstadt and the Warthegau by poison gas, began operating.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:44 am
December 8th 1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon was fatally shot in the entrance hallway of the Dakota apartments in New York City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:44 am
December 8th 1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon was fatally shot in the entrance hallway of the Dakota apartments in New York City.
:\'(
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:45 am
December 8th 1991 – Leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine signed the Belavezha Accords, agreeing to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:45 am
December 8th 2004 – Twelve South American countries signed the Cusco Declaration, announcing the foundation of what is now the Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental union modelled after the European Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:46 am
December 8th 1660 – Margaret Hughes becomes the first actress to appear on an English public stage, playing the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:46 am
December 8th 1864 – The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon is officially opened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:47 am
December 8th 1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:47 am
December 8th 1982 – Activist Norman Mayer threatens to blow up the Washington Monument, before being killed by United States Park Police.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:48 am
December 8th 1935 – The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/09 at 1:49 am
December 8th 1869 – Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:11 am
December 9th 1425 – Pope Martin V issued a papal bull establishing what later became the Catholic University of Leuven, the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:11 am
December 9th 1905 – Legislation establishing state secularism in France was passed by the Chamber of Deputies of France, triggering civil disobedience by French Catholics.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:12 am
December 9th 1979 – A World Health Organization commission of eminent scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated from nature.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:12 am
December 9th 1990 – Lech Wałęsa became the first President of Poland to be elected in a direct presidential election after the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:12 am
December 9th 2008 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a number of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by then-U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:14 am
December 9th 1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:15 am
December 9th 1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:15 am
December 9th 1875 – Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:15 am
December 9th 1950 – Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:16 am
December 9th 1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:16 am
December 9th 1990 – Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:17 am
December 9th 1960 – The first episode of Britain's longest running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 12/09/09 at 2:31 am
December 9th 1960 – The first episode of Britain's longest running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast.
49 years? I'll have to ask my mom how long she has been watching it. (My mom lived in England for 3 years, but before the show existed, so she is familiar with the setting)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/09 at 2:57 am
49 years? I'll have to ask my mom how long she has been watching it. (My mom lived in England for 3 years, but before the show existed, so she is familiar with the setting)
I hardly ever watch it myself.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:18 am
December 10th 1508 – The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:19 am
December 10th 1898 – The Spanish-American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, with Spain recognizing the independence of Cuba; and ceding Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:20 am
December 10th 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes were awarded, on the anniversary of the 1896 death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:20 am
December 10th 1907 – During the Brown Dog affair, about 1,000 protesters marched through London and then clashed with 400 police officers in Trafalgar Square over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:21 am
December 10th 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representing the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:22 am
December 10th 1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:22 am
December 10th 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:23 am
December 10th 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:23 am
December 10th 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:24 am
December 10th 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/09 at 2:24 am
December 10th 1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 1:58 am
December 11th 1789 – The North Carolina General Assembly chartered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, currently the oldest public university in the United States and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 1:58 am
December 11th 1886 – Dial Square, a football club from Woolwich, London that would eventually become known as Arsenal F.C., played their first match, winning 6–0 against Eastern Wanderers on an open field in the Isle of Dogs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 1:59 am
December 11th 1936 – Facing increased opposition to his plans to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson, Edward VIII abdicated the throne, becoming the only British monarch to voluntarily do so.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 1:59 am
December 11th 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly created UNICEF, originally to help provide emergency food and health care to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 1:59 am
December 11th 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust opened in theran "to provide an appropriate scientific atmosphere for scholars to offer their opinions in freedom about a historical issue", but was criticised worldwide as a "meeting of Holocaust deniers".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 2:00 am
December 11th 359 – Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 2:00 am
December 11th 1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 2:00 am
December 11th 1907 – The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 2:01 am
December 11th 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 2:01 am
December 11th 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/09 at 2:03 am
December 11th 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 12/11/09 at 2:28 am
December 11th 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
...and France declares war on itself, by accident :D
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:34 am
...and France declares war on itself, by accident :D
A slip of pen, it could happen?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:34 am
A slip of pen, it could happen?
Remeber that the pen is mightier than the sword.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:35 am
December 12th 1897 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, was inaugurated as Cidade de Minas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:35 am
December 12th 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, from Poldhu Wireless Station in Cornwall, England to Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:35 am
December 12th 1915 – President Yuan Shikai of the Republic of China reinstated the monarchy and declared himself Emperor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:36 am
December 12th 1964 – Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:38 am
2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its controversial 5–4 decision in Bush v. Gore, ordering the election recount of the ballots cast in Florida for the 2000 presidential election to stop, which effectively ended the election in favor of George W. Bush.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:40 am
December 12th 627 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:40 am
December 12th 1531 – Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. An image appeared miraculously on the cloak of Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, on the hill of Tepeyac near Mexico City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:40 am
December 12th 1911 – King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:41 am
December 12th 1936 – Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:41 am
1979 – President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:42 am
December 12th 1988 – The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains – one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 3:42 am
December 12th 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant – A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/09 at 4:15 am
December 12th 1955 - The 'Hovercraft' was patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:08 am
December 13th 1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:08 am
December 13th 1545 – Council of Trent begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:08 am
December 13th 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:09 am
December 13th 1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:09 am
December 13th 1769 – Dartmouth College in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire, USA was established by a Royal Charter from British King George III and became the last university founded in the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:10 am
December 13th 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside suffered severe casualties against entrenched Confederate defenders at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:10 am
December 13th 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces captured Nanjing in China and then began to commit numerous atrocities over the next several weeks, such as looting, rape and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:11 am
December 13th 1981 – Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in Poland, suspended Solidarity and imprisoned many union leaders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:11 am
December 13th 2003 – Post-invasion Iraq: During Operation Red Dawn, American forces found former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hiding in a spider hole and captured him.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:12 am
December 13th 1642 – Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:13 am
December 13th 1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/09 at 3:13 am
December 13th 2000 – American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:11 am
December 14th 1819 – Alabama was admitted as the 22nd U.S. state, after the statheood of present-day Northern Alabama was delayed for several years by the lack of a coastline until Mobile was captured from Spain during the War of 1812.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:12 am
December 14th 1836 – The Toledo War, the mostly bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining Territory of Michigan, unofficially ended with a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:12 am
December 14th 1896 – Glasgow Subway, the third oldest below-ground metro system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro, began operations in Glasgow, Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:13 am
December 14th 1900 – German physicist Max Planck presented a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law, suggesting that electromagnetic energy could only be emitted in quantized form.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:13 am
December 14th 1995 – The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Bosnian War, establishing, among others, a new structure of government and political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:14 am
December 14th 1287 – St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:14 am
December 14th 1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:15 am
December 14th 1903 – The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:15 am
December 14th 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:16 am
December 14th 2003 – President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/09 at 2:16 am
December 14th 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 1:56 am
December 15th 1467 – Troops under Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the forces of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary in present-day Baia, Romania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 1:56 am
December 15th 1791 – The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the United States Bill of Rights, were ratified.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 1:57 am
December 15th 1864 – American Civil War: Union troops essentially destroyed the Army of Tennessee, one of the largest Confederate forces, at the Battle of Nashville.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 1:57 am
December 15th 1942 – World War II: The Americans engaged Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in the hills near the Matanikau River area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 1:58 am
December 15th 1964 – The six-month long Canadian Great Flag Debate effectively ended when the Canadian House of Commons voted to replace the de facto national flag of Canada, the Canadian Red Ensign, with an official one designed by historian George Stanley, the Maple Leaf Flag.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 1:58 am
December 15th 2005 – The F-22 Raptor, a Stealth fighter aircraft that the United States Air Force claimed is unmatched by any known or projected fighter, entered into service despite a protracted and costly development period.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 2:00 am
December 15th 533 – Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 2:00 am
December 15th 1167 – Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 2:00 am
December 15th 1256 – Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 2:01 am
December 15th 1903 – The Wright Brothers first attempted to launch the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, NC
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/09 at 2:01 am
December 15th 1891 – James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:35 am
December 16th 1598 – Admiral Yi Sun-sin's Korean navy defeated the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Noryang, the final naval battle of the Imjin War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:36 am
1653 – The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:36 am
December 16th 1773 – Boston Tea Party: To prevent the unloading of tea that was taxed without their consent under the Tea Act, a group of colonists destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:37 am
December 16th 1893 – Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:37 am
December 16th 1971 – Pakistani forces in East Pakistan surrendered, ending both the Indo-Pakistani War and the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:37 am
December 16th 1998 – The United States and United Kingdom launched a major four-day bombing campaign on Iraqi targets in response to Iraq's failure to comply with several U.N. Security Council resolutions as well as their interference with U.N. Special Commission inspectors.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:39 am
December 16th 755 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:39 am
December 16th 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:39 am
December 16th 1950 – President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:40 am
December 16th 1997 – Dennō Senshi Porygonan episode of Pokémon, is aired in Japan, inducing seizures in hundreds of Japanese children.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/09 at 1:41 am
December 16th 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:51 am
December 17th 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized in a Roman Catholic service and was probably born the previous day, 16th December.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:53 am
December 17th 1819 – The Republic of Gran Colombia in South America was established, with Simón Bolívar as its first president.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:53 am
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:54 am
December 17th 1903 – In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, Orville and Wilbur Wright aboard the Wright Flyer (pictured) conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:54 am
December 17th 1903 – In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, Orville and Wilbur Wright aboard the Wright Flyer (pictured) conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Wrightflyer_crop.jpg/100px-Wrightflyer_crop.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:55 am
December 17th 1918 – Protesting government policies concerning political representation, unemployment and taxation, about 1,000 demonstrators marched on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, where they burnt an effigy of the Administrator of the Northern Territory John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:55 am
December 17th 1944 – Nazi German troops under Joachim Peiper killed unarmed prisoners of war, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, with machine guns near Malmedy, Belgium.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:58 am
December 17th 942 – Assassination of William I of Normandy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:58 am
December 17th 1577 – Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:59 am
December 17th 1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:59 am
December 17th 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
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Written By: Frank on 12/17/09 at 2:12 am
December 17th 1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.
I might have watched that first one when it aired, not 100% certain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 2:12 am
I might have watched that first one when it aired, not 100% certain.
We started watching the Simpsons very late.
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/17/09 at 7:19 am
1538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/17/09 at 7:19 am
1745 Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/17/09 at 7:20 am
1959 "On The Beach" is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:31 am
December 18th 1271 – Mongol ruler Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty in present-day Mongolia and China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:32 am
December 18th 1892 – The first performance of the fairy tale-ballet The Nutcracker, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and based on the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:38 am
December 18th 1912 – The Piltdown Man: At a meeting of the Geological Society of London, amateur British archaeologist Charles Dawson claimed that he had been given a fragment of a skull that was discovered at a gravel pit near Uckfield, East Sussex, England, which later turned out to be a forgery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:39 am
December 18th 1966 – Epimetheus one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:39 am
December 18th 1972 – Vietnam War: A few days after peace talks collapsed, the United States began Operation Linebacker II against North Vietnam, the largest heavy bomber strikes launched by the U.S. Air Force since the end of World War II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:40 am
December 18th 1620 – The Mayflower lands in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts with 102 Pilgrims on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:40 am
December 18th 1997 – HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:41 am
December 18th 1987 – Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:41 am
December 18th 1915 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:42 am
December 18th 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 1:42 am
December 18th 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/09 at 2:46 am
December 18th 1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:01 am
December 19th 1154 – Henry II was crowned King of England in London's Westminster Abbey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:02 am
December 19th 1843 – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (pictured), a novella about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his conversion after being visited by three Christmas ghosts, was first published.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:02 am
December 19th 1843 – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (pictured), a novella about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his conversion after being visited by three Christmas ghosts, was first published.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Dickens_Gurney_head.jpg/68px-Dickens_Gurney_head.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:03 am
December 19th 1920 – Constantine I returned as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I and a plebiscite.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:03 am
1984 – The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:03 am
December 19th 1997 – The film Titanic was released, eventually becoming the highest-grossing film of all time with a worldwide total of over US$1.8 billion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:04 am
December 19th 1998 – The U.S. House of Representatives passed articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:04 am
December 19th 324 – Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:05 am
December 19th 1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:05 am
December 19th 1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:06 am
December 19th 1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:06 am
December 19th 1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
What did ever happened to him?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:07 am
December 19th 1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/09 at 1:08 am
December 19th 1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:09 am
December 20th 1860 – South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:10 am
December 20th 1917 – The Cheka the first Soviet secret police, was established by a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:10 am
December 20th 1951 – Experimental Breeder Reactor I near Arco, Idaho, USA, became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced sufficient electricity to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:11 am
December 20th 1973 – Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assassinated by a bomb planted by members of the Basque nationalist and separatist organisation ETA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:11 am
December 20th 1989 – American forces invaded Panama to overthrow the government of Manuel Noriega.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:11 am
December 20th 1999 – Portugal transferred sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:12 am
December 20th 69 – Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:12 am
December 20th 1522 – Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:13 am
December 20th 1606 – The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:13 am
December 20th 2007 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:14 am
December 20th 2007 – The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café, by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 2:15 am
December 20th 1835 – First signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Goliad, Texas.
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/20/09 at 7:11 am
1192 Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/20/09 at 7:11 am
1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/09 at 3:04 pm
December 20th 1955 – Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:38 am
December 21st 1872 – HMS Challenger commanded by Captain George Nares, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on a scientific expedition that eventually made many discoveries that laid the foundation of oceanography.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:38 am
December 21st 1883 – The Royal Canadian Regiment and The Royal Canadian Dragoons, the oldest regular regiments of the Canadian Army, were both formed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:39 am
December 21st 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length cel-animated feature in film history, premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:39 am
December 21st 1979 – The Lancaster House Agreement was signed, ending biracial rule in Zimbabwe Rhodesia following negotiations between representatives of the Rhodesian government and the Patriotic Front.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:39 am
December 21st 1988 – A total of 270 people were killed when a bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 exploded while the plane was in flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, launching an eventual three-year joint investigation by Britain's Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:40 am
December 21st 1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:40 am
December 21st 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:41 am
December 21st 1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:41 am
December 21st 1844 – The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:42 am
December 21st 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At 2h:50m:37s Mission elapsed time (MES), the crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave Earth's gravity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/09 at 1:42 am
December 21st 2012 – The end of the World as predicted in the past by several prophets.
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Written By: ninny on 12/21/09 at 8:12 am
December 21st 1988..A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:46 am
December 22nd 1808 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (pictured) premiered his Fifth Symphony, currently one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of European classical music, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:48 am
December 22nd 1808 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (pictured) premiered his Fifth Symphony, currently one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of European classical music, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Beethoven.jpg/83px-Beethoven.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:48 am
December 22nd 1885 – Itō Hirobumi, a samurai from Chōshū, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:49 am
December 22nd 1947 – The Constitution of the Italian Republic was enacted by the Constituent Assembly.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:49 am
December 22nd 1963 – A total of 128 people died when the ocean liner TSMS Lakonia burned at sea 180 miles (290 km) north of Madeira.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:50 am
December 22nd 1989 – Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate re-opened after nearly 30 years, symbolizing the unity of East and West Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:50 am
December 22nd 2001 – Burhanuddin Rabbani of the Northern Alliance handed over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by Hamid Karzai.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:50 am
December 22nd 1704 – Battle of Chamkaur
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:52 am
December 22nd 1851 – The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:52 am
December 22nd 1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:52 am
December 22nd 1964 – Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:53 am
December 22nd 1965 – In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 1:53 am
December 22nd 1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:00 am
December 23rd 962 – Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:00 am
December 23rd 1620 – Construction of the Plymouth Colony, an English colonial venture in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, began two days after the first landing party arrived at the site.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:01 am
December 23rd 1823 – A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, was first published anonymously. Authorship was later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:01 am
December 23rd 1888 – During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh stalked his friend French painter Paul Gauguin with a razor, and then afterwards cut off the lower part of his own left ear and gave it to a prostitute.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:01 am
December 23rd 1972 – The Nicaraguan capital of Managua was struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:02 am
December 23rd 1986 – Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Voyager became the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, landing in California's Edwards Air Force Base after a nine-day trip.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:03 am
December 23rd 1938 – Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:03 am
December 23rd 1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:03 am
December 23rd 1893 – The opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:04 am
December 23rd 1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:04 am
December 23rd 1954 – The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Written By: Frank on 12/23/09 at 2:19 am
December 23rd 1986 – Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Voyager became the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, landing in California's Edwards Air Force Base after a nine-day trip.
We had received a VCR for Christmas that year (Opened the gift early) and this event was the first thing I ever recorded on that VCR.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:21 am
We had received a VCR for Christmas that year (Opened the gift early) and this event was the first thing I ever recorded on that VCR.
It was a record-breaking event of it's day.
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Written By: Frank on 12/23/09 at 2:23 am
It was a record-breaking event of it's day.
Yes, I remember watching it. It was my last years of University and exams were finished a few days earlier.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/09 at 2:26 am
Yes, I remember watching it. It was my last years of University and exams were finished a few days earlier.
Somehow I missed that event, but know of it now.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:05 am
December 24th 1777 – An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island, the largest coral atoll in the world.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:05 am
December 24th 1814 – The Treaty of Ghent was signed in Ghent, present-day Belgium, ending the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:06 am
December 24th 1865 – Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded the Ku Klux Klan, which would later become a white supremacist group.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:06 am
December 24th 1964 – The Vietcong bombed the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, killing two US Army officers, raising fears of an escalation in the Vietnam War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:06 am
December 24th 1974 – Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin, Australia, eventually destroying more than 70 percent of the city.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:07 am
1968 – Astronaut William Anders of the NASA spacecraft Apollo 8, the first manned voyage to orbit the Moon, took the famous photograph known as "Earthrise" (pictured), showing the Earth rising above the lunar surface.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:07 am
1968 – Astronaut William Anders of the NASA spacecraft Apollo 8, the first manned voyage to orbit the Moon, took the famous photograph known as "Earthrise" (pictured), showing the Earth rising above the lunar surface.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg/100px-NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:08 am
December 24th 1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:08 am
December 24th 1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:09 am
December 24th 1924 – Albania becomes a republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/09 at 2:09 am
December 24th 1851 – Library of Congress burns.
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Written By: Frank on 12/24/09 at 2:13 am
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg/100px-NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
Very famous photo
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 12/24/09 at 6:03 am
1893 Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/25/09 at 6:12 am
1651 Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/25/09 at 6:12 am
1831 Louisiana & Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/25/09 at 6:13 am
1950 Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/26/09 at 9:25 am
December 26th 1606 – The first recorded performance of the play King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the legend of King Lear of Britain, was held.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/26/09 at 9:26 am
December 26th 1790 – French Revolution: Louis XVI of France gave his Royal Assent to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, subordinating the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government.