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December 12th
1531 ~ Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City.
1911 ~ The capital of India moved from Calcutta to New Delhi.
1913 ~ Mona Lisa recovered in Florence, 2 years and 3 months after it was stolen.
1915 ~ Birthday of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor.
1927 ~ Birthday of Robert Noyce , one of the men credited with the invention of the integrated circuit.
1963 ~ Kenya gained its independence from the UK.
1979 ~ Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe.
1996 ~ Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt.
1999 ~ Death of Joseph Heller, Author.
2003 ~ Death of Keiko, the killer whale in the “Free Willy” movies.
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12-13-2005, 06:30 AM
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December 13th
1204 ~ Death of Maimonides, Sephardi Philosopher.
1577 ~ Sir Francis Drake began his circumnavigation from Plymouth, England.
1642 ~ Abel Janszoon Tasman reached New Zealand.
1784 ~ Death of Samuel Johnson, Essayist.
1816 ~ Birthday of Werner von Siemens, Engineer, Inventor & Industrialist.
1925 ~ Birthday of Dick Van Dyke, Actor & Comedian.
1941 ~ Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
1974 ~ Malta became a republic.
1996 ~ Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2003 ~ Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured near Tikrit.
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12-14-2005, 06:43 AM
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December 14th
1503 ~ Birthday of Nostradamus, Astrologer & Mathematician.
1546 ~ Birthday of Tycho Brahe, Astronomer.
1799 ~ Death of George Washington, first U.S. President.
1900 ~ Max Planck published his study of the quantum theory.
1902 ~ First telegraph cable laid across the Pacific Ocean.
1911 ~ First expedition reached the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen.
1939 ~ USSR expelled from the League of Nations.
1962 ~ Birthday of Ginger Lynn Allen, Actress.
1962 ~ Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1995 ~ The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Yugoslav wars.
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12-15-2005, 06:28 AM
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December 15th
37 ~ Birthday of Nero, Roman emperor.
1791 ~ The U.S. Bill of Rights ratified.
1832 ~ Birthday of Gustave Eiffel, civil engineer.
1852 ~ Birthday of Antoine Henri Becquerel, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.
1916 ~ France defeated Germany in Battle of Verdun.
1923 ~ Birthday of Freeman Dyson, Physicist.
1952 ~ Death of Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Physicist.
1961 ~ An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentenced Adolph Eichmann to death.
1966 ~ Death of Walt Disney, Animator & Cartoonist.
1994 ~ Netscape Navigator 1.0 first released.
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12-16-2005, 06:31 AM
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December 16th
1689 ~ The English Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights.
1773 ~ The Boston Tea Party.
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.
1928 ~ Birthday of Philip K. Dick, Science Fiction Writer.
1944 ~ The Battle of the Bulge began.
1944 ~ A V-2 rocket hit the Rex Cinema in Antwerp killing 567 people.
1998 ~ Operation Desert Fox: American and British aircraft began to bomb Iraqi targets after Iraq obstructed UN weapons inspectors.
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12-17-2005, 02:20 PM
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December 17th
1830 ~ Death of Simón Bolívar, Latin American politician & Activist.
1843 ~ A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published.
1903 ~ The first controlled, powered heavier-than-air flight occurred when the Wright brothers took to the air, both of them twice at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1969 ~ The USAF, in closing Project Blue Book, announced that its UFO investigations found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1961 ~ India seized Goa from Portugal.
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.
1981 ~ Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
2003 ~ “The Return of the King” opened in theaters worldwide.
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12-18-2005, 09:20 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 ~ With the proclamation by Secretary of State William Seward, of the passing of the 13th Amendment, slavery was abolished in the United States.
1912 ~ Official presentation of the discovery of Piltdown Man.
1936 ~ Death of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist.
1946 ~ Birthday of Steven Spielberg, movie director.
1996 ~ "Ebonics" was declared a language or dialect by the outgoing school board of Oakland, California, whose vote was overturned by the incoming board. The Clinton administration subsequently declared "black English" a form of slang that did not belong in the classroom.
2002 ~ California Governor Grey Davis announced that the state would face a budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier. The budget issue was used to support his 2003 recall from office.
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12-19-2005, 06:42 AM
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December 19th
1733 ~ Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanack.
1848 ~ Death of Emily Brontë, Author.
1888 ~ Birthday of Fritz Reiner, Conductor.
1906 ~ Birthday of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician.
1962 ~ Nyasaland seceded from Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
1974 ~ The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, went on sale.
1979 ~ ”Kramer vs. Kramer”, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, opened in theaters.
1984 ~ The UK and People's Republic of China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which returned Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
1988 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives passed articles of impeachment against President Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.
2003 ~ Libya announced that it would begin to destroy its weapons of mass destruction.
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12-20-2005, 06:43 AM
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December 20th
1833 ~ Birthday of Samuel Mudd, physician, convicted conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1860 ~ South Carolina became the first state to secede from the US.
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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12-21-2005, 06:42 AM
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December 21st
1118 ~ Birthday of Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor & Archbishop of Canterbury.
1804 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Disraeli, Politician & Writer.
1898 ~ Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
1914 ~ First feature-length silent film comedy, “Tillie's Punctured Romance”, was released, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin.
1933 ~ Newfoundland becomes a crown colony.
1940 ~ Death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Writer.
1945 ~ Death of George S. Patton, U.S. General.
1958 ~ Charles de Gaulle became the first leader of the Fifth Republic.
1979 ~ The U.S. Federal government bailed out the Chrysler Corporation.
1988 ~ A terrorist bomb exploded in Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270, including 11 on the ground.
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12-22-2005, 06:41 AM
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December 22nd
1858 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Puccini, Composer.
1880 ~ Death of George Eliot, Writer.
1939 ~ Death of Ma Rainey, Blues Singer.
1944 ~ German forces demanded the surrender of Allied troops at Bastogne, Belgium.
1989 ~ Ion Iliescu assumed executive power of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist dictatorship.
1989 ~ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opened, ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 ~ Lech Wałęsa sworn in as President of Poland.
2001 ~ The Afghan Northern Alliance, handed over power in Afghanistan to the government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
2001 ~ Richard Reid tried to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.
2001 ~ Cc the cat, the first cloned pet, was born.
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12-23-2005, 06:53 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.
1888 ~ Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear.
1939 ~ Death of Anthony Fokker, aircraft manufacturer.
1947 ~ The transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1953 ~ Death of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader.
1956 ~ British and French forces withdrawn from Suez, Egypt.
1979 ~ Soviet military occupies Kabul, Afghanistan.
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 Jesuits.
1818 ~ Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber.
1818 ~ Birthday of James Prescott Joule, Physicist.
1910 ~ Birthday of Fritz Leiber, Science Fiction writer.
1914 ~ World War I: The Christmas truce begins.
1914 ~ Death of John Muir, Naturalist.
1957 ~ Birthday of Hamid Karzai, first democratically elected President of Afghanistan.
1962 ~ The last of the Bay of Pigs prisoners freed.
1968 ~ The Apollo 8 crew becomes the first manned space mission to orbit the Moon.
1974 ~ Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia.
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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 & Mathematician.
1821 ~ Birthday of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.
1918 ~ Birthday of Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president.
1938 ~ Birthday of Karel Čapek, Czech author, inventor of the word robot.
1973 ~ A programming bug routed all ARPANET traffic through the server at Harvard, causing the server to freeze - crashing the network.
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).
Feastdays & Holidays
The Nativity of Jesus.
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December 26th
1610 ~ 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.
1890 ~ Death of Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist.
1893 ~ Birthday of Mao Zedong, Chinese Politician.
1941 ~ Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
1948 ~ Cardinal Mindszenty arrested in Hungary.
1966 ~ The first Kwanzaa was celebrated.
1991 ~ Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
2004 ~ An Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 13 countries.
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