This Week In #History ... December 6- 12
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Dec 6
1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas
1732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City
1768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
1865 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1877 Washington Post publishes 1st edition
1877 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)
1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa
1957 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up
1989 Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
1994 Orange County California files for bankruptcy
Happy birthday to Henry VI, Warren Hastings, William S. Hart, Lina Carstens, Gunnar Myrdal, Alan McGilvray, Eleanor Holm, Harold Horace Hopkins, Bruce Nauman, Helen Cornelius, Gina Hecht, Steven Wright, Judd Apatow, Peter Buck, Lindsay Price, Matt Maloney, Tim Cahill.
Dec 7
1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1912 Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1917 U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1926 Gas refrigerator patented
1932 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward)
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
1945 Microwave oven patented
1972 Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1992 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
Happy birthday to Mary Stuart, Giovanni Bernini, Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, Allan Cunningham, Theodor Schwann, Leopold Kronecker, Warren Bardsley, Fay Bainter, Nora Nicholson, Daniel Jones, Eli Wallach, Victor Kermit Kiam II, Noam Chomsky, Ellen Burstyn, Harry Chapin, Susan Collins, Julie Halston, Priscilla Barnes, Hermann Maier, Jordi Burillo, Shiri Appleby, Angel Carter, Aaron Carter.
Dec 8
1813 Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1914 British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1923 German - U.S friendship treaty signed
1931 Coaxial cable patented
1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1956 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City
1980 Bravo network premieres on cable TV
1992 Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
Happy birthday to Mary Queen of Scots, Francis I, Johann G von Zimmermann, Eli Whitney, Henry Timrod, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, William Crapo Durant, Jacques Hadamard, Paul Cavanagh, Irene Eisinger, Wilmer L Allison, Jr., Lee J. Cobb, Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Johnny Otis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, David Carradine, Nick Nolte, Jenny Linden, Jim Morrison, John Rubinstein, Sam Kinison, Kim Basinger, Billy Hufsey, Paul Rutherford, Teri Hatcher, Sinead O'Connor, Dominic Monaghan, Ian Somerhalder AAAAAAAND JEN FRIEL!!!
Dec 9
1212 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1931 Spain becomes a republic
1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1941 Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed
1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy
1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped
1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1994 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
Happy birthday to Edwin Sandys, Adrian A. Metius, Gustavus II Adolphus, Carl W. Scheele, Charles Emile Waldteufel, Pjotr A. Kopotkin, Fritz Haber, Margaret Hamilton, Dalton Trumbo, Grace Murray Hopper, Noel Walton Bott, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Broderick Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Redd Foxx, Dina Merrill, John Cassavetes, Buck Henry, Judi Dench, Alan Ridout, Beau Bridges, Michael Dorn, John Malkovich, Nancy J. Currie, Joe Lando, Petr Nedved, Tre Cool, Fabrice Santoro.
Dec 10
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st)
1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of U.S. by airplane (84 days)
1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson
1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
1931 Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1984 1st planet outside our solar system discovered
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
Happy birthday to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Melvil Dewey, Otto Neurath, Victor McLaglen, Ray Collins, Una Merkel, Jill Summers, Harold Gould, Carolyn Ashley Kizer, John Colicos, Dan Blocker, Tommy Kirk, Peter Michael Goetz, Frank Beard, Susan Dey, Susan Hallock Dey, Mark Aguirre, Nia Peeples, Brian Molko, Rusty LaRue, Meg White, Raven-Symoné, Summer Phoenix.
Dec 11
1688 King James II arrested
1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in U.S. (New England)
1816 Indiana becomes 19th state
1901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Newfoundland
1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City
1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs. NSW
1930 Bank of the United States opens in New York City
1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
1967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
1983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
Happy birthday to David Brewster, Robert Koch, Ellen Key, Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, Paul Wegener, Max Born, Carlo Ponti, Anna van Beers, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Grace Paley, Betsy Blair, Stein Eriksen, Rita Moreno, Anne Heywood, Aldar Kovacsi, Karen Susman, Lynda Day George, Christine Onassis, Ken Wahl, Jermaine Jackson, Nikki Sixx, Justin Currie, Mos Def.
Dec 12
1098 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara Syria
1474 Isabella crowns herself queen of Castilie and Aragon
1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify U.S. constitution
1800 Washington D.C. established as capital of US
1858 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent and 20 cent)
1899 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
1913 "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1915 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
1916 Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
1961 Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany, Georgia
1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford
1996 Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
1997 Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
Happy birthday to Ahmed III, Marie Louise, Gustave Flaubert, Matthias Hohner, Edvard Munch, Alfred Werner, Karen Morley, Eve Lister, Frank Sinatra, Heinrich Boll, Arthur R Hawkins, Og Mandino, Edward Koch, John Osborne, Connie Francis, Clive Bunker, Bill Nighy, Ricardo Luis Carreras, Sarah Douglas, Bruce Kulick, Scott D Vangen, Tracy Austin, Teresa Blake, Madchen Amick, Kirk Cameron, Mayim Winkelman Bialik, Bridget Hall, Jennifer Connelly.