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;# Notable events in history (Nov-Dec)
;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at
;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado.
;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com
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;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file
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;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu)
;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com).
;# All dates in this file are New Style unless otherwise noted.
;# Some duplicates may exist where I haven't been able to verify which
;# one is correct.
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00001101 Algeria began its rebellion against French rule (1954)%s19541101
00001101 An earthquake hits Spain, Portugal and Morocco killing 60000 in Lisbon alone (1755)%s17551101
00001101 Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations (1918)%s19181101
00001101 Barbed wire is first made allowing the ranges to be fenced (1873)%s18731101
00001101 Benito Mussolini described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin (1936)%s19361101
00001101 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents. (1981)%s19811101
00001101 General George B. McClellan was made general in chief of the Union armies (1861)%s18611101
00001101 Michelangelo's paintings on the Sistine Chapel ceiling were first exhibited to the public (1512)%s15121101
00001101 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at Blair House (1950)%s19501101
00001101 The first hydrogen bomb is exploded at Eniwetak Island in the Pacific (1952)%s19521101
00001101 The stamp act goes into effect in the British colonies. Colonists reacted strongly with flags at half mast and burning of stamps (1765)%s17651101
00001101 US Government loans Chrysler Corporation $1.5 billion after it had lost $460M in 3rd Quarter (1979)%s19791101
00001101 US Weather Bureau begins operations. (1870)%s18701101
00001101 first women report for sea duty on US Navy non-combat ships (1978)%s19781101
00001102 All church land is nationalized in France and later used as collateral for paper money (1789)%s17891102
00001102 Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent Gerald Ford; the first Deep South presidential candidate to be elected since the Civil War (1976)%s19761102
00001102 Lansing-Ishii Agreement (1917)%s19171102
00001102 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London (1940)%s19401102
00001102 North Dakota becomes the 39th state (1889)%s18891102
00001102 South Dakota becomes the 40th state (1889)%s18891102
00001102 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers. (1948)%s19481102
00001103 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America. (1930)%s19301103
00001103 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound in Illinois (1837)%s18371103
00001103 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas. (1952)%s19521103
00001103 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents. (1917)%s19171103
00001103 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (1954)%s19541103
00001103 Panama gains it's independence from Columbia. (1903)%s19031103
00001103 Rev. Jesse Jackson began his first campaign for the Democratic nomination for president (1983)%s19831103
00001103 The Automobile Club of America sponsored the first automobile show in the United States at Madison Square Garden (1900)%s19001103
00001103 first automatic switchboard (1892)%s18921103
00001104 90 people taken hostage when Iranians overrun US embassy in Teheran (1979)%s19791104
00001104 Death to America day in Iran (1987)%s19871104
00001104 First wagon train reaches California (1841)%s18411104
00001104 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen. (1922)%s19221104
00001104 Nellie T. Ross becomes governor of Wyoming and the first woman governor ever (1924)%s19241104
00001104 Ronald Reagan elected president, a sad day for environmentalists everywhere (1980)%s19801104
00001104 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary (1956)%s19561104
00001104 The first cash register was patented. (1880)%s18801104
00001105 Guy Fawkes caught preparing to blow up the parliament and king James I (1605)%s16051105
00001105 John Hanson elected 1st 'President of the United States in Congress assembled' (8 years before Washington was elected) (1781)%s17811105
00001105 Last Seth Thomas tower clock installed (1942)%s19421105
00001105 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (1872)%s18721105
00001106 Abraham Lincoln elected president (1860)%s18601106
00001106 Bolsheviks overthrow moderate provisional government making Lenin dictator (1917)%s19171106
00001106 Col. Jacob Schick was issued a patent for the electric razor (1923)%s19231106
00001106 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established (1862)%s18621106
00001106 The stock market hits 1400 on its way up (1985)%s19851106
00001107 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan. (1811)%s18111107
00001107 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway. (1885)%s18851107
00001107 Congress overrides Nixon's veto of bill to curb president's ability to commit armed forces to hostile action (1973)%s19731107
00001107 First state penitentiary for women is opened (1877)%s18771107
00001107 Franklin Roosevelt wins a fourth term against Thomas E. Dewey (1944)%s19441107
00001107 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean. (1805)%s18051107
00001107 October revolution takes place in Russia, Lenin overthrows Kerensky (1917)%s19171107
00001107 The Mary Celeste sets sail for Genoa. She will be found 4 weeks later abandoned at sea, the whereabouts of her crew unknown. (1872)%s18721107
00001107 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from sea to sea (1875)%s18751107
00001107 an elephant is first used to represent the Republican party in a cartoon by Thomas Nast (1874)%s18741107
00001107 an erroneous United Press report of armistice sets off celebrations (1918)%s19181107
00001108 Adolph Hitler and General Ludendorff seize the Munich government (1923)%s19231108
00001108 During the Korean War, the first jet to jet combat occurs as Lieutenant Russell J. Brown shoots down a North Korean MIG-15 (1950)%s19501108
00001108 Edwrd W. Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. senator elected by popular vote (1966)%s19661108
00001108 George Bush elected as 41st President (1988)%s19881108
00001108 John Kennedy narrowly beat Richard Nixon for the Presidency (1960)%s19601108
00001108 Montana becomes the 41st state (1889)%s18891108
00001108 Operation Torch begins as U.S. and British forces invade North Africa (1942)%s19421108
00001108 the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public. (1793)%s17931108
00001109 Blackout of New York, New England, & Eastern Canada (1965)%s19651109
00001109 Fire destroyed nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston. (1872)%s18721109
00001109 Giant panda discovered (?!), China (1927)%s19271109
00001109 Kristallnacht, a night of antisemitic rioting in Germany (1938)%s19381109
00001109 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League (1921)%s19211109
00001109 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration (1933)%s19331109
00001109 The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) starts freely issuing visas for travel to West Germany for its citizens (1989)%s19891109
00001109 The U.N. General Assembly passed 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa (1976)%s19761109
00001109 last victim of Jack the Ripper dies (1888)%s18881109
00001110 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance. (1951)%s19511110
00001110 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) (1891)%s18911110
00001110 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House (1917)%s19171110
00001110 Badlands National Park approved by Congress (1978)%s19781110
00001110 Captain Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged (1865)%s18651110
00001110 Henry Stanley finds David Livingstone at Ujiji, Zanzibar and says "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" To which Livingstone replies, "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you." (1871)%s18711110
00001110 Hirohito takes the throne as Emperor of Japan (1928)%s19281110
00001110 The Iwo Jima Memorial is dedicated in Arlington, Va. (1954)%s19541110
00001110 The Mayflower compact is signed (1620)%s16201110
00001110 The U.S. Marines organized to protect ships (1775)%s17751110
00001110 The ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 vanish during a storm on Lake Superior (1975)%s19751110
00001111 Angola gains independence from Portugal (1975)%s19751111
00001111 Haymarket rioters hanged (1887)%s18871111
00001111 Indians led by William Butler massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley in New York (1778)%s17781111
00001111 Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire (1972)%s19721111
00001111 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated. (1924)%s19241111
00001111 The Allies and the Germans sign Armistice ending World War I (1918)%s19181111
00001111 Washington admitted as the 42nd state. (1889)%s18891111
00001112 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken. (1933)%s19331112
00001112 Arches National Park approved by Congress (1971)%s19711112
00001112 Ellis Island closes after more than 20M immigrants were processed since 1892 (1954)%s19541112
00001112 Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party (1927)%s19271112
00001112 The bodies of Captain Scott and his companions are found after their tragic attempt to return from the South Pole (1912)%s19121112
00001112 The first salmon is caught in the Thames river since the 1840's (1974)%s19741112
00001112 U.S. first exports oil to Europe (1861)%s18611112
00001112 the 1st "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago (1946)%s19461112
00001113 Benjamin Franklin wrote to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." (1789)%s17891113
00001113 Bloody Sunday occurs in Trafalgar Square, London as Socialist and Irish demonstrators fought (1887)%s18871113
00001113 Brothers and Sisters of Red Death attempt mass suicide before world ends (1900)%s19001113
00001113 London-Paris Telegraph is opened (1851)%s18511113
00001113 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California. (1849)%s18491113
00001113 The volcano, Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia, erupts sending a huge mud slide down to kill 25000 people (1985)%s19851113
00001114 A new island, later called Surtsey boiled up through the ocean surface off the coast of Iceland (1963)%s19631114
00001114 Capt. George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay. (1792)%s17921114
00001114 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of President Garfield; he was convicted and hanged the next year (1881)%s18811114
00001114 Coventry, England is heavily bombed by the Germans. Coventry Cathedral is destroyed (1940)%s19401114
00001114 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the world by 8 days (72 days) (1889)%s18891114
00001114 President Carter freezes all Iranian assets in US Banks in response to Iranian hostage crisis (1979)%s19791114
00001114 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request from McDonald's) (1971)%s19711114
00001114 The world's first street car runs in New York (1832)%s18321114
00001115 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began running the Mason-Dixon line (1763)%s17631115
00001115 Columbus makes first reference to the use of tobacco by New World Indians (1492)%s14921115
00001115 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated. (1869)%s18691115
00001115 Infant Baby Fae, who had received a baboon's heart, died almost three weeks after the transplant (1984)%s19841115
00001115 Niagara Falls power plant startup (1896)%s18961115
00001115 Pres. F.D.Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. (1939)%s19391115
00001115 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check. (1939)%s19391115
00001115 The last voyage of the Queen Elizabeth ends (1968)%s19681115
00001116 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state (1907)%s19071116
00001116 Opening of the Suez Canal (1869)%s18691116
00001116 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. (1933)%s19331116
00001117 0h on this day is the epoch for the Modified Julian Date (MJD) (1858)%s18581117
00001117 Accession of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558)%s15581117
00001117 Ayatollah Khomeini orders release of thirteen female and black hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran (1979)%s19791117
00001117 Church of England is reestablished (1558)%s15581117
00001117 Colonel Nasser becomes Egyptian Premier (1954)%s19541117
00001117 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session. (1800)%s18001117
00001117 Panama Canal opens for use. (1913)%s19131117
00001118 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer. (1820)%s18201118
00001118 Cortez leaves Cuba for Mexico with 10 armed vessels (1518)%s15181118
00001118 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama. (1903)%s19031118
00001118 Local standard time zones established for US and Canada (1883)%s18831118
00001118 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated (1626)%s16261118
00001118 The Jonestown, Guyana mass murder and suicide (1978)%s19781118
00001118 U.S. Navy Captain Nathanial Palmer discovered Antartica (1820)%s18201118
00001118 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays (1966)%s19661118
00001118 William Tell is said to have shot the apple off of his son's head (1307)%s13071118
00001118 the last boatload of British convicts land in Australia (1840)%s18401118
00001118 ticker tape used for the first time in a parade as Prince of Wales visits the U.S. (1919)%s19191118
00001119 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico. (1493)%s14931119
00001119 Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the Edsel. (1959)%s19591119
00001119 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg. (1863)%s18631119
00001119 Liquified gas tanks explode in Mexico City killing 452 with 1000 missing (1984)%s19841119
00001119 Zion National Park approved by Congress (1919)%s19191119
00001119 more than 50000 gallons of radioactive waste water is accidentally released into the Mississippi River when waste storage overflows at Monticello, Minn. reactor (1971)%s19711119
00001119 the pencil is invented. (1895)%s18951119
00001120 Egypt and China announce their recognition of a Palestinian state (1988)%s19881120
00001120 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to address Israel's Parliament (1977)%s19771120
00001120 New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. (1789)%s17891120
00001120 Photograph is first required on US passports (1914)%s19141120
00001120 Simon Bolivar declares Venezuela independent of Spain (1818)%s18181120
00001120 The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of DDT to be followed by a total ban in 1971 (1969)%s19691120
00001120 The population clock at the Department of Commerce turns over to 200M people at a few minutes past 11 am. (1967)%s19671120
00001120 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock. (1888)%s18881120
00001121 83 million people tune into "Dallas" to see who shot J.R. (1980)%s19801121
00001121 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape (1973)%s19731121
00001121 Honolulu Harbor discovered. (1794)%s17941121
00001121 J. de Rozier makes first balloon flight (1783)%s17831121
00001121 North Carolina becomes the 12th state (1789)%s17891121
00001121 Opening of the Alcan Highway (1942)%s19421121
00001121 The Verrazano Narrows opened to traffic, linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island (1964)%s19641121
00001121 Thomas Edison announced the invention of a phonograph, which he dubbed a "talking machine." (1877)%s18771121
00001122 Lebanon gains it's independence (1943)%s19431122
00001122 the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as the new call for help (1906)%s19061122
00001123 Fredrick County, Maryland repudiated the British Stamp Act (1765)%s17651123
00001123 Joseph F. Smith, president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) was convicted of polygamy (1906)%s19061123
00001123 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet. (1852)%s18521123
00001123 Most rationing of food in the United States ended. (1945)%s19451123
00001123 President Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning after the assassination of President Kennedy (1963)%s19631123
00001123 US forces take Tarawa and Makin in the Gilbert Islands from Japanese hands (1943)%s19431123
00001123 US helicopter force lands in Vietnam POW camp and trying to rescue US soldiers there, but the place was empty (1973)%s19731123
00001123 patent granted for a process of making color photographs. (1863)%s18631123
00001123 the People's Rebublic of China is seated in the UN security council (1971)%s19711123
00001124 Abel Jansen Tasman discovers Van Deiman's Land (known as Tasmania since 1853) (1642)%s16421124
00001124 Clyde Coleman received the patent for the electric self-starter for the automobile (1903)%s19031124
00001124 Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy (1963)%s19631124
00001124 Hijacker Dan Cooper parachuted from a 727 over washington state with $200,000 in ransom and has not been heard from since (1971)%s19711124
00001124 The River Thames freezes over (1434)%s14341124
00001124 a fair is held on the Thames which had frozen over (1751)%s17511124
00001124 patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire. (1874)%s18741124
00001125 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite (1867)%s18671125
00001125 Evaporated milk is patented (1884)%s18841125
00001125 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed. (1948)%s19481125
00001125 George Papadopoulos, Greek President, was ousted (1973)%s19731125
00001125 The body of President Kennedy, assassinated three days earlier, was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery (1963)%s19631125
00001126 500,000 Jews were forced by the Nazis to live in a walled ghetto in Warsaw, Poland (1940)%s19401126
00001126 A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States (1789)%s17891126
00001126 A federal jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford (1975)%s19751126
00001126 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands). (1778)%s17781126
00001126 China enters the Korean conflict sending troops across the Yalu River (1950)%s19501126
00001126 India adopts a constitution as a republic in the British Commonwealth (1949)%s19491126
00001126 Public streetcar service began in New York City; fare 12 1/2 cents. (1832)%s18321126
00001126 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment. (1876)%s18761126
00001127 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize (1895)%s18951127
00001127 Friction match invented, England (1826)%s18261127
00001127 Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed in NW Massachusetts (1873)%s18731127
00001127 New York's Pennsylvania Station opened; at that time, the world's largest railway terminal (1910)%s19101127
00001127 Pope Paul VI was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest (1970)%s19701127
00001127 The Senate voted to confirm Gerald Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro Agnew who had resigned (1973)%s19731127
00001127 The first tidal power station in the world, opens near St. Malo, France (1966)%s19661127
00001128 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean. (1520)%s15201128
00001128 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Tehran during WWII (1943)%s19431128
00001128 nearly 500 people die in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston (1942)%s19421128
00001129 Armenia was proclaimed a Soviet Socialist Republic (1920)%s19201129
00001129 Colorado militia kill 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in Sand Creek massacre (1864)%s18641129
00001129 Doctors Jackson and Martin of Boston publish a paper extolling the use of ether in surgery (1846)%s18461129
00001129 King Tut's tomb opened (1922)%s19221129
00001129 President Johnson named the Warren commission to investigate Kennedy's assassination (1963)%s19631129
00001129 President elect Dwight Eisenhower visits Korea for inspection of the war (1952)%s19521129
00001129 The Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. instituted sweeping changes in the liturgy, including the use of English instead of Latin (1964)%s19641129
00001129 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii. (1887)%s18871129
00001129 first underground A-bomb exploded in Nevada (1951)%s19511129
00001130 Chinese communists capture Chungking (1949)%s19491130
00001130 Samuel Chase, the first US supreme court justice to be impeached begins his trial. He is not convicted. (1804)%s18041130
00001130 The United States and Britain sign preliminary peace treaty to end the Revolutionary War (1782)%s17821130
00001201 56 million acres of land made into 17 national monuments by President Carter (1978)%s19781201
00001201 Father Edward Flanagan founded boys town outside of Omaha with less than $100 (1917)%s19171201
00001201 First national corn-husking championship, Alleman IA (1924)%s19241201
00001201 First telephone installed in the White House (1878)%s18781201
00001201 Lady Astor is the first woman to be sworn into the British Parliament (1919)%s19191201
00001201 Martin Luther King Jr. leads black boycott of Montgomery buses (1955)%s19551201
00001201 Ms. Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her front section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama (1955)%s19551201
00001201 The first Christmas club payment was made to Carlisle Trust Co. of Carlisle, PA (1909)%s19091201
00001201 The first drive in gas station is open for business in Pittsburgh (1913)%s19131201
00001201 the presidential election is turned over to the House of Representatives among John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay (1824)%s18241201
00001202 1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago. (1942)%s19421202
00001202 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted. (1982)%s19821202
00001202 1st savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (1816)%s18161202
00001202 A squash court at the University of Chicago is the site of the first sustained nuclear reaction (1942)%s19421202
00001202 Barney Clark receives the first permanent artificial heart at the University of Utah Medical Center. He will die 112 days later. (1982)%s19821202
00001202 Ford Motor Company unveiled its Model A automobile (1927)%s19271202
00001202 Napoleon was crowned emperor of France by Pope Pius VII in a glittering ceremony at Notre Dame (1804)%s18041202
00001202 Napoleon wins the battle of Austerlitz, defeating the Russo-Austrian army (1805)%s18051202
00001202 President Jame Monroe lays down the philosophy later to be known as the Monroe Doctrine in a message to Congress (1823)%s18231202
00001202 The Second Empire proclaimed in France with Napoleon III as emperor (1852)%s18521202
00001202 an employee error releases 1 million gallons of radioactive water into an experimental nuclear reactor (1952)%s19521202
00001203 A cloud of deadly methyl isocyanate vapor leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India killing over 2000 people (1984)%s19841203
00001203 Andrew Jackson elected president (1828)%s18281203
00001203 First neon light display, Paris (1910)%s19101203
00001203 First successful human heart transplant by Dr. Christian Barnard (South Africa, 1967)%s19671203
00001203 Galileo invents the telescope. (1621)%s16211203
00001203 Illinois becomes the 21st state (1818)%s18181203
00001203 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned by the U.S. Senate (1954)%s19541203
00001203 Oberlin College, the first coeducational college in America, opens (1833)%s18331203
00001203 The first showing of a Technicolor film (1922)%s19221203
00001203 The game of BINGO is invented (1929)%s19291203
00001204 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC (1783)%s17831204
00001204 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens. (1915)%s19151204
00001204 Woodrow Wilson leaves for Brest, France to become the first American president to visit a foreign country (1918)%s19181204
00001205 A bicycle riding school opens in New York (1868)%s18681205
00001205 Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition (1933)%s19331205
00001205 Glenn Curtiss issued patent for the aileron after legal battle with the Wright brothers (1911)%s19111205
00001205 Jim Bakker, TV evangelist for the PTL organization, indicted on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy including diverting $4 million dollars of their followers money to support their own "lavish and extravagant" lifestyles (1988)%s19881205
00001205 Phi Beta Kappa founded at William and Mary becoming the first US scholastic fraternity (1776)%s17761205
00001205 The merger of the AF of L (American Federation of Labor) and CIO (Congress of Industrial Labor) becomes effective (1955)%s19551205
00001206 Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) is recognized by India (1971)%s19711206
00001206 City of Anaheim incorporated for a second time. (1876)%s18761206
00001206 Columbus discovers the Dominican Republic (1492)%s14921206
00001206 England and Ireland sign a peace treaty (1921)%s19211206
00001206 Finland gains it's independence. (1917)%s19171206
00001206 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison (1877)%s18771206
00001206 French ammunition ship and a Belgian steamer collide and sink in Halifax harbor killing 1600 (1917)%s19171206
00001207 Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution. (1787)%s17871207
00001207 Formal declaration of war on Austria-Hungary by U.S. (1917)%s19171207
00001207 Henry VI is crowned king of France (1431)%s14311207
00001207 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (1941)%s19411207
00001207 Pigtails are abolished and calendar reformed by edict in China (1911)%s19111207
00001207 at 11:41AM local time an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale shook Soviet Armenia killing over 55000 people and leaving half a million homeless (1988)%s19881207
00001208 Henry Laurens becomes the first person to be cremated after death in America (1792)%s17921208
00001208 The Royal Gorge Bridge, the highest bridge above water, was first opened. It is 1053 feet above the Arkansas River in Colorado (1929)%s19291208
00001209 1st Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington Post Office. (1907)%s19071209
00001209 A charter was drafted whereby the French government would operate pawn shops (1777)%s17771209
00001209 Ball-bearing roller skates patented (1884)%s18841209
00001209 The Rocking F ranch of Nevada formally laid claim to all water in any clouds passing over it (1947)%s19471209
00001209 The Virgin Mary first appears to the farmer Juan Diego and tells him that a church should be built on the spot where he stands. (1531)%s15311209
00001209 The earliest date found (as of 1989) in the New World. It was reconstructed from a Mayan stone fragment found in Chiapa de Corzo in Mexico. (36 BC)%s19891209
00001209 the John Birch Society was founded (1958)%s19581209
00001210 Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel prize in the five areas of chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and peace (1896)%s18961210
00001210 Danuta Walesa accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her husband Lech Walesa, the Polish labor leader (1983)%s19831210
00001210 Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding he recant, or face excommunication (1520)%s15201210
00001210 Metric system established in France (1799)%s17991210
00001210 Mississippi becomes the 20th state (1817)%s18171210
00001210 President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign intermediate-range nuclear missile treaty (1987)%s19871210
00001210 The first distribution of the Nobel prize (1901)%s19011210
00001210 Women allowed to vote in Wyoming Territory (1869)%s18691210
00001210 a treaty is signed in Paris ending the Spanish-American War (1898)%s18981210
00001211 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents). (1975)%s19751211
00001211 Indiana becomes the 19th state (1816)%s18161211
00001211 King Edward VIII abdicates the throne of Britain for the woman he loves (Mrs Wallace Simpson) (1936)%s19361211
00001211 UNICEF is created (1946)%s19461211
00001212 Atlantic first bridged by radio when Marconi in Newfoundland receives 's' in Morse code from the British Isles (1901)%s19011212
00001212 Chiang Kai Shek declares war on Japan (1936)%s19361212
00001212 Kenya gains it's independence. (1963)%s19631212
00001212 Ludwig van Beethoven, age 22, pays the equivalent of 19 cents for his first music lesson from Franz Josheph Haydn in Vienna (1792)%s17921212
00001212 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state (1787)%s17871212
00001212 The Virgin Mary appears again to the farmer Juan Diego and instructs him to take the roses from a nearby bush to the Church as proof that she has visited him. (1531)%s15311212
00001212 last Labrador Duck killed (1878)%s18781212
00001213 Authorities in Poland impose martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity Labor movement (1981)%s19811213
00001213 Dartmouth College chartered (1769)%s17691213
00001213 Madrid falls to Napoleon (1808)%s18081213
00001213 New Zealand is discovered by Abel Tasman (1642)%s16421213
00001213 Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued. (1978)%s19781213
00001213 The battle of Fredricksburg is won by the Confederacy (1862)%s18621213
00001213 Woodrow Wilson becomes the first president to visit Europe while in office (1918)%s19181213
00001214 Alabama becomes the 22nd state (1819)%s18191214
00001214 Israel annexes Golan Heights (1982)%s19821214
00001214 Roald Amundson is the first to reach the South Pole just 35 days ahead of Captain Scott of England (1911)%s19111214
00001214 Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations (1939)%s19391214
00001214 The United Nations general assembly voted to establish UN headquarters in New York (1946)%s19461214
00001214 U.S. agrees to talk with the PLO after Yassir Arafat meets U.S. requirements for talks (1988)%s19881214
00001214 US suspends government food shipments to Poland in reaction to declaration of martial law. (1982)%s19821214
00001215 Argo Merchant oil spill (1976)%s19761215
00001215 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval. (1791)%s17911215
00001215 Patent granted to Mr. Edison for the phonograph. (1877)%s18771215
00001216 Beginning of the big German offensive that resulted in the Battle of the Bulge (1944)%s19441216
00001216 Boston Tea Party took place as colonists boarded a British ship in Boston Harbor and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard (1773)%s17731216
00001216 By act of Senate, Napoleon is divorced from Josephine (1809)%s18091216
00001216 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise (1907)%s19071216
00001216 Santa Anna is declared dictator of Mexico (1853)%s18531216
00001216 The federal government halts swine flu vaccinations following reports of paralysis apparently linked to the vaccine (1976)%s19761216
00001216 Thousands of people are massacred while protesting the Romanian government in the town of Timisoara, Romania. The country's borders are closed off. (1989)%s19891216
00001217 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County. (1860)%s18601217
00001217 New York City traffic regulation creates the 1st one-way street (1791)%s17911217
00001217 Simon Bolivar becomes president of the Republic of Columbia (1819)%s18191217
00001218 Death penalty for murder is abolished in Britain (1969)%s19691218
00001218 Japan admitted to the United Nations (1956)%s19561218
00001218 Napoleon arrives in Paris after abandoning his troops in Russia (1812)%s18121218
00001218 New Jersey becomes the 3rd state by ratifying the Constitution (1787)%s17871218
00001218 Prohibition Amendment passes (1917)%s19171218
00001218 Scots are defeated at Clifton Moor (1745)%s17451218
00001218 The British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812 (1813)%s18131218
00001218 the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery was declared in effect (1865)%s18651218
00001219 Corrugated paper patented (1871)%s18711219
00001219 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh's troops launch widespread attacks against the French. (1946)%s19461219
00001219 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter. (1777)%s17771219
00001220 Savannah Georgia is evacuated as Sherman's army approaches (1864)%s18641220
00001220 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union (1860)%s18601220
00001220 The Gregorian Calendar was introduced in France (1582)%s15821220
00001220 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed (1922)%s19221220
00001220 U.S. takes possession \~1,000,000 sq. miles of Louisiana for \~$20/sq.mi. The purchase more than doubles the area of the Country. (1803)%s18031220
00001220 the Berlin wall is opened for the first time as people from the West are given a day leave to go to the East (1963)%s19631220
00001221 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World (1913)%s19131221
00001221 A bomb explodes on Pan Am flight 103 which then crashes into Lockerbie, Scotland destroying 40 houses and their occupants as well as all 258 aboard the plane. (1988)%s19881221
00001221 Charles de Gaulle was elected to a seven year term as first president of the Fifth Republic of France (1958)%s19581221
00001221 Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium (1898)%s18981221
00001221 The pilgrims go ashore for the first time at Plymouth Mass. (1620)%s16201221
00001222 Bernhard Goetz shoots four black youths on a Manhattan subway, claiming they were about to rob him (1984)%s19841222
00001222 Brandenburg Gate is opened for the first time since the Berlin Wall was erected. (1989)%s19891222
00001222 Ceausescu, Romanian dictator, overthrown by popular movement (1989)%s19891222
00001222 Dostoyevsky, Russian author, sentenced to die at age 27 but lives until 1881 (1849)%s18491222
00001222 General Sherman takes Savannah, Georgia (1864)%s18641222
00001222 German's demand surrender of Americans holding Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe answers with the historic message "Nuts!" and holds out for 4 more days (1944)%s19441222
00001222 The American colonies organize a Continental naval fleet under the command of Ezek Hopkins (1775)%s17751222
00001223 George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the army and retires to his home at Mount Vernon, Va. (1783)%s17831223
00001223 The transistor was invented by Walter Bratain, John Bardeen and William Shockley (1947)%s19471223
00001224 First solar-heated house (first house specifically engineered in Western building construction for solar heat, to be specific) (1948)%s19481224
00001224 KKK formed in Pulaski, Tenn (1865)%s18651224
00001224 Part of the capitol building and the whole Library of Congress destroyed by fire (1851)%s18511224
00001224 The war of 1812 officially ended as Britain and the US signed the treatey of Ghent in Belgium. Slowness of communications allowed the battle of New Orleans to be fought the following month. (1814)%s18141224
00001224 the back-pedal brake for bicycles is patented (1889)%s18891224
00001225 Charlemagne is crowned emperor of the West by Pope Leo III (800)%s08001225
00001225 Denny's fast food restaurants closed for the first time in 35 years. Because of their "Always Open" policy there are some Denny's that don't even have locks. (1988)%s19881225
00001225 First recorded celibration of Christmas on this day takes place in Rome (336)%s03361225
00001225 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926)%s19261225
00001225 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians. (1776)%s17761225
00001226 George Washington defeats the Hessians at Trenton (1776)%s17761226
00001226 James Mason invents the 1st American coffee percolator. (1865)%s18651226
00001227 Carrie Nation's first raid (1900)%s19001227
00001227 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle. (1831)%s18311227
00001227 Ether first used as anesthetic in childbirth (1845)%s18451227
00001227 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens. (1932)%s19321227
00001227 Stalin ousts Trotsky (1937)%s19371227
00001228 58th parallel is crossed by advancing Chinese forces in Korea (1950)%s19501228
00001228 City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph. (1915)%s19151228
00001228 Independence of Mexico recognized by Spain (1836)%s18361228
00001228 Iowa becomes the 29th state (1846)%s18461228
00001228 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US. (1902)%s19021228
00001228 a patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple. (1669)%s16691228
00001229 Discovery of heavy water (deuterium) (1931)%s19311229
00001229 Glacier National Park ranger fatally shoots snowmobile (1974)%s19741229
00001229 Massacre at Wounded knee (1890)%s18901229
00001229 Texas becomes the 28th state (1845)%s18451229
00001230 First Los Angeles freeway dedicated (1940)%s19401230
00001230 Gadsden Purchase signed. (1853)%s18531230
00001231 At noon the Panama Canal will be given over to the Panamanians (1999)%s19991231
00001231 Benedict Arnold's attack on Quebec fails (1775)%s17751231
00001231 Canadian prohibition (1917)%s19171231
00001231 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US). (1879)%s18791231
00001231 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp. (1879)%s18791231
00001231 Standard US letter postage goes to $.13 (1975)%s19751231
00001231 Winterland closes its doors (1978)%s19781231
