This day in history.....

November 30th


1782: A preliminary peace treaty between the colonies and England is signed in Paris.


1918: Denmark recognizes Iceland as an independent kingdom.


1939: Russia invades Finland, beginning the Russo-Finnish War.


1954: In Alabama, a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house into the living room, where it strikes a woman on the hip.


1966: Britain grants independence to Barbados, a British crown colony in the West Indies.
 
December 1st


1913: The first drive-in gas station opens in Pittsburgh.


1935: Chiang Kai-shek is elected chairman of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) Executive Council, thereby becoming virtual ruler of China.


1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.


1955: The first remote-control railroad passenger car goes into service.


1959: A camera mounted on the nose of a missile takes the first color picture of Earth from space.
 
1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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You can say what you want about great human beings, but most frequently they're average people who have simply had enough.
 
December 3rd


1818: Illinois enters the Union as the 21st state.


1833: Oberlin Collegiate Institute, the first college to enroll men and women on equal terms, opened in Oberlin, Ohio, with an enrollment of twenty-nine men and women.

1935: Eleanor Roosevelt dedicates the first low-income housing project in New York City.


1967: South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performs the first heart transplant operation. The patient, Louis Washkansky, survives for 18 days.
 
December 5th

1776: Phi Beta Kappa, the first collegiate fraternity, is founded at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.


1933: The 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ends Prohibition.


1955: The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous trade unions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, is formed.

1955: The Montgomery bus boycott begins. Planned in part by Martin Luther King, Jr., the boycott is a protest against the city's segregation laws, followingKing, Jr. the arrest of NAACP secretary Rosa Parks.
 
December 6th


1907: In West Virginia, an explosion kills 361 coal miners.


1917: A French munitions ship explodes after colliding with another vessel in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Over a thousand are killed.


1921: The Irish Free State, composing four-fifths of Ireland, is declared as part of a peace agreement with Great Britain.

1922: General Electric's Utica Gas and Electric Company plant becomes the first commercial carrier of electricity.

1941: The Manhattan Project is formed in Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. Its aim is to develop an atomic bomb.


1973: Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as vice president.
 
December 7th


1732: The Covent Garden Theatre opens in London, England.


1787: Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.


1917: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.


1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.


1972: Apollo 17, the sixth and last of the Apollo landing missions, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 
December 8th


1644: Queen Christina, at the age of 18, becomes the active ruler of Sweden. She pursues a policy aimed at peace in Europe rather than territorial expansion and national aggrandizement.


1886: The American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded.


1929: The first ship-to-shore mobile telephone commercial service is launched.


1940: The German air force attacks London in the Battle of Britain.


1941: The day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Congress passes a declaration of war against Japan, and the United States formally enters World War II.


1987: At a summit meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of both countries.
 
December 10th


1793: American lexicographer Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper, The Minerva.


1940: Britain launches its first major offensive against Italian-dominated North Africa at Sidi Barrani in northeastern Egypt.


1941: China declares war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.

1958: Robert H. Welch, Jr., founds the John Birch Society to fight the infiltration of communism into American society.
 
Mare said:
December 10th
1958: Robert H. Welch, Jr., founds the John Birch Society to fight the infiltration of communism into American society.
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Yeah, that's what it's about. ;)

Don't forget the Birch John Society. Fighting the disappearance of wooden toilet seats from American bathrooms.
 
December 10th



1869: Wyoming becomes the first state to adopt woman suffrage.


1898: In France, the Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire.


1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.


1902: The Aswan Dam on the Nile in Egypt officially opens, having been started in 1898. It is the largest dam in the world.


1948: The United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, marking the birth of the modern human rights movement.
 
December 12th


1256: Pope Alexander IV organizes Italian hermits independently following the rule of Saint Augustine into a single order, the Augustinian Hermits or Friars.


1870: Joseph Hayne Rainey becomes the first African-American sworn into the House of Representatives.


1899: The golf tee is patented.


1901: The first transatlantic radio transmission is received.


1937: Japanese warplanes sink the U.S. gunboat Panay during the battle for Nanking, China, in the Sino-Japanese War.

1989: The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
 
December 14th


1819: Alabama is the 22nd state to join the Union.


1902: The cableship Silverton begins laying the first transpacific telegraph cable, which reaches from San Francisco to Honolulu.


1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first person to reach the South Pole.


1946: The United Nations General Assembly establishes permanent U.N. headquarters in New York City.


1955: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Finland, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, and Spain are admitted to the United Nations (U.N.).
 
December 15th


1791: The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, become law following ratification by the state of Virginia.


1874: Hawaiian King David Kalakaua visits President Ulysses S. Grant at the White House, becoming the first reigning king to visit the United States.

1890: In South Dakota, Sioux leader Sitting Bull is arrested on suspicion of leading an uprising, then killed in a subsequent gunfight.


1965: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 rendezvous in space, orbiting the Earth together for over five hours.
 
December 16th


1653: Oliver Cromwell, a leader in the English Revolution and ruler of England since 1649, is proclaimed Lord Protector of England.


1773: Bostonians empty the holds of 3 tea-bearing British ships into Boston Harbor to protest the British tax on tea imported to the colonies.


1944: The Battle of the Bulge begins as the Germans advance into Belgium and Luxembourg.


1966: The United Nations adopts the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and opens it to the general assembly for ratification. It becomes international law in 1976.
 
december 18th


1787: New Jersey ratifies the U.S. Constitution.


1865: Following its ratification earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution takes effect, ensuring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States."


1957: The first full-scale commercial nuclear power station in the United States opens at Shippingport, Pennsylvania. It produces 60,000 kilowatts of electricity.


1958: Project Score, the world's first experimental communications satellite, is launched.
 
December 20th


1790: American cotton producer Samuel Slater opens the first American cotton mill.


1803: France formally transfers authority over the territory of Louisiana to the United States.


1820: Missouri passes legislation that taxes single men, aged 21 to 50, one dollar.


1860: South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States, following the victory of Republican Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election.


1880: In New York City, electric lights are installed on Broadway.


1922: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
 
December 24th

1814: Great Britain and the United States sign the Treaty of Ghent, formally ending the War of 1812.


1851: A fire at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroys about two-thirds of its 55,000 volumes, including two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson's personal library.

1906: The first radio program is broadcast.


1946: The first live telecast of an American church service is broadcast from the Grace Episcopal Church on Broadway and Tenth Street in New York City.
 
December 26th

1776: American forces under George Washington raid British Hessian mercenaries at the Battle of Trenton, Pennsylvania.


1865: The coffee percolator is patented.


1941: Winston Churchill becomes the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.


1966: Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach, organizes the first Kwanzaa celebration in Los Angeles, California.
 
December 28th

1832: John C. Calhoun becomes the first U.S. vice president to resign from office, citing political differences with President Andrew Jackson and a desire to fill a vacant Senate seat in South Carolina.


1869: The North American labor union Knights of Labor hold the first Labor Day ceremony in American history.


1869: William Semple of Ohio patents chewing gum. :beardbng:

1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate the cinématographe using their film Quitting Time at the Lumière Factory, probably the first real motion picture ever made.

1945: The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the pledge of allegiance and recommends its recitation in American classrooms.:)
 
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