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On This Day In History, December 3rd

1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster
A gas leak from a Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in the city of Bhopal, India killed over 2000 people and affected thousands of others. It is said to be the world's worst industrial disaster.

1970 Ayatollah Khomeini takes office
The Iranian religious leader was a leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

1927 First Laurel & Hardy movie released
Putting Pants on Philip, a short silent film starring the comedy duo marked the beginning of a long partnership.

1910 First public demonstration of neon lights
Seen in most urban settings and cities today, the neon light was invented by French inventor and engineer, Georges Claude. They were first displayed at the Paris Motor Show.

1818 Illinois joins the Union
The midwestern state became the 21st state to be part of the United State. 3 U.S. presidents call it their home state.
 

Births On This Day, December 3rd 🎂

1985 Amanda Seyfried
American actress, singer

1981 David Villa
Spanish footballer

1895 Anna Freud
Austrian/English psychoanalyst

1857 Joseph Conrad
Polish/English author

1826 George B. McClellan
American general, politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey

Deaths On This Day, December 3rd 🪦

1939 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

1928 Ezra Meeker
American businessman

1910 Mary Baker Eddy
American writer, founder of Christian Science

1894 Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author, poet

311 Diocletian
Roman Emperor
 
3rd December 1966

The Monkees appear live in concert for the first time at a show at the Honolulu International Center Arena in Hawaii.
They performed solely as a four-piece band, with Mickey Dolenz on drums, Mike Nesmith on guitar, Peter Tork on bass, organ and banjo, and Davy Jones alternating between tambourine, maracas and drums.
 

3rd December 1966

Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band became the number one tune in the US.
It also reached the top in the UK.
The song would go on to win the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Recording, edging out The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations", The Beatles' "Elenor Rigby", The Mamas And The Papas' "Monday Monday", The Association's "Cherish" and The Monkees' "Last Train To Clarksville".
 
1911
at the American Society of Mechanics Engineering conference, air conditioning engineer, Willis Carrier presents his influential idea that air conditioning is possible
1967
the 1st human heart transplant is done by Dr Christiaan Bernard in South Africa on patient Louis Washkansky,age 53.He was a grocer dying of chronic heart disease.He lived for 18 days, lung infection and pneumonia caused his death
1984
the worst industrial disaster in history happened in a densely populated area in Bhopal, India. A Union Carbide plant accidentally leaked a highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyante into the air instantly killing 3,000 people,578,000 were injured.The leak was caused by mechanical& human errors
2017
The 1st pizza party in space is held at the international Space Station
 
On This Day In History, December 6th

1977 South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana
The Republic of Bophuthatswana was never internationally recognized. In 1994, after a series of coups, it reintegrated with South Africa.

1967 World's first pediatric heart transplant
3 days after the first heart transplant in the world occurred in South Africa, Adrian Kantrowitz and his team of surgeons performed the United States' first heart transplant and the world's first pediatric heart transplant at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.

1922 Establishment of the Irish Free State
The Anglo-Irish Treaty signed between the British and Irish representatives in 1921 paved the way for the establishment of the Dominion of the British Empire. The state lasted until December 1937.

1917 Finnish Declaration of Independence
The declaration ended 109 years of Finland being a Grand Duchy in the Russian Empire. The Northern European country came under the control of the Russian Empire in 1809. After the October Revolution in Russia, which created the Soviet Union, the Finnish Parliament declared independence on this day.

1865 Adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime.
 
Births On This Day, December 6th 🎂

1982 Alberto Contador
Spanish cyclist

1967 Judd Apatow
American director, producer, screenwriter

1941 Richard Speck
American murderer

1920 Dave Brubeck
American pianist, composer

1875 Evelyn Underhill
English poet

Deaths On This Day, December 6th 🪦

1990 Tunku Abdul Rahman
Malaysian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia

1988 Roy Orbison
American singer-songwriter

1956 B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, politician

1889 Jefferson Davis
American colonel, politician, President of the Confederate States of America

1882 Alfred Escher
Swiss businessman, politician
 
6th December

1877 Thomas Edison made the first recording of the human voice - his own, reciting 'Mary had a little lamb'.

1962 Choking fog spread across Britain. A thick layer of fog which had covered London for three days started to spread all over the country. Leeds recorded its highest ever level of sulphur dioxide in the air and pneumonia cases in Glasgow trebled.

1975 The Balcombe Street siege in Central London was watched by millions on television. It ended when the four IRA gunmen, who had taken a couple hostage following a gun battle and chase, finally gave themselves up without a shot being fired.

1983 The first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain was successfully carried out.

1992 Mob ripped apart mosque in Ayodhya. A mob of Hindu militants tore down a mosque and attacked other Muslim targets in the north Indian town of Ayodhya, in one of India's worst outbreaks of inter-communal violence.
 
7th December 1956

The movie, Rock Rock Rock! is the first Rock And Roll movie to have had a soundtrack album issued.
31-year-old actress Tuesday Weld lip-synching to Connie Francis' voice.

Also appearing in the film were Teddy Randazzo, The Moonglows, Chuck Berry, The Flamingos, LaVern Baker, The Johnny Burnette Trio, and Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers.
 
On This Day In History, December 8th

1991 Belavezha Accords signed
The Belavezha Accords, which disbanded the USSR and replaced it with the Commonwealth of Independent States were signed

1991 Romanian Constitution comes into force
Passed through a referendum, the Constitution marked a return to democracy for Romania after 42 years of Communist rule.

1991 Creation of Commonwealth of Independent States
The international organization was formed by Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation as a political forum for members of the former Soviet Union.

1987 First Intifada begins
The Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories began after an Israeli army truck attacked a car and killed 4 Palestinians. The Intifada ended in 1991 after the Madrid Conference.

1941 U.S. enters WWII
One day after the Japanese Imperial Navy launched an attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan and entered World War II.
 
Births On This Day, December 8 🎂

1982 Nicki Minaj
Trinidadian/American rapper, actress

1961 Ann Coulter
American lawyer, author

1953 Norman Finkelstein
American academic, author, activist

1943 Jim Morrison
American singer-songwriter, poet

Deaths On This Day, December 8th 🪦

2004 Dimebag Darrell
American guitarist, songwriter

1980 John Lennon
English singer-songwriter, musician, producer

1978 Golda Meir
Israeli educator, politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel

1903 Herbert Spencer
English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, philosopher

1864 George Boole
English mathematician, philosopher
 
On This Day In History, December 9th

1979 WHO declares the eradication of smallpox
The World Health Organization officially certified that after a number of concentrated vaccination campaigns around the world smallpox had been eradicated. Only two infectious diseases have been completely eradicated in history; the other is Rinderpest, which is an infectious disease of cattle that was eradicated in 2011.

1965 A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on television
The popular animated musical special about Christmas was based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip called Peanuts. The special was critically acclaimed as a telling commentary on the loss of the spirit of Christmas among Americans. It is now screened every year at Christmas time around the world.

1961 Tanganyika gains independence
The Republic of Tanganyika was administered by the British from 1916 until 1961. Part of German East Africa, the territory was officially handed over to the British by League of Nations mandate in 1922. The Republic was short-lived. In April 1964, it joined the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which became the United Republic of Tanzania in 1965.

1960 First episode of Coronation Street airs
The longest-running TV soap opera, this British production follows the life of people living on Coronation Street, a fictional street in a fictional suburb of Manchester.

1893 Auguste Vaillant bombs the French Chamber of Deputies
Auguste Vaillant, a French anarchist, bombed the French Chamber of Deputies. No one was hurt in the attack, but Vaillant was sentenced and executed for his actions.
 
Births On This Day, December 9th 🎂

1968 Kurt Angle
American wrestler, actor

1953 John Malkovich
American actor

1934 Judi Dench
English actress

1895 Dolores Ibárruri
Spanish politician

1608 John Milton
English poet

Deaths On This Day, December 9th 🪦

2012 Patrick Moore
English astronomer, television host

1998 Archie Moore
American boxer

1979 Fulton J. Sheen
American archbishop

1941 Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Russian author, poet, philosopher

1437 Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
 
1793
Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st newspaper, 'The American Minerva'
1926
U.S. Golf Association legalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1965
"A Charlie Brown Christmas', the 1st Peanuts animated special ,based on the cartoon by cartoonist, Charles Schultz, debuts on CBS in U.S.
1967
Nicole Ceausescu becomes president/ dictator of Romania,he's overthrown in 1989
1992
Operation Restore Hope, 18,000 U.S. Marines & other allied nations launch a amphibious& airborne operation in Mogadishu, Somalia to restore order in the war torn nation
2022
a sheet of paper which scientist, Charles Darwin defended his 'theory of evolution' in 1865 sells at Sotheby's for a record $882,000
 
On This Day In History, December 10th

2007 Argentina swears in first female elected President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the first elected female President of Argentina.

2001 Release of the first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
The award-winning movie called The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was directed by Peter Jackson and was based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

1948 U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The document proclaimed, for the first time, that fundamental human rights were to be universally protected.

1901 First Nobel Prize awarded
Five years after the death of Swedish chemist and inventor, Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.

1817 Mississippi becomes 20th state
Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
 
Births On This Day, December 10th 🎂

1956 Rod Blagojevich
American politician, 40th Governor of Illinois

1908 Olivier Messiaen
French composer, ornithologist

1878 C. Rajagopalachari
Indian lawyer, politician, 1st Governor General of India

1830 Emily Dickinson
American poet

1815 Ada Lovelace
English mathematician

Deaths On This Day, December 10th 🪦

2006 Augusto Pinochet
Chilean general, politician, 30th President of Chile

1999 Franjo Tuđman
Croatian general, politician, 1st President of Croatia

1967 Otis Redding
American singer-songwriter, producer

1951 Algernon Blackwood
English author

1896 Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, invented dynamite, founded the Nobel Prize
 
10th December

1541 Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.

1868 The first traffic lights were installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they used semaphore arms and were illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

1907 Author Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1907 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clashed with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that had been subjected to vivisection. The Brown Dog riots were a series of events that began when medical students became angry with a bronze statue of a dog in Battersea's Latchmere Recreation Ground. The statue was commissioned by anti-vivisectionists and had a plaque that read, "Men and women of England, how long shall these Things be?". The statue was frequently vandalized, and a 24-hour police guard was required to protect it.

1979 Twenty year old stuntman Eddie Kidd accomplished a "death-defying" motorcycle leap when he crossed an 80ft gap over a 50ft sheer drop above a viaduct at Maldon, Essex. He jumped the Great Wall of China in 1993, but his career ended after he suffered serious head injuries in 1996 at a Hell's Angels rally in Warwickshire.
 
On This Day In History, December 12th

2009 Houston, Texas elects Annise Parker
The City of Houston became the most populous city in the United States to have an openly gay mayor.

1969 Piazza Fontana bombing
A bomb exploded at the building of the National Agrarian Bank, Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and injuring 88.

1963 Kenyan independence
Kenya declared its independence from the UK.

1787 Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
It was the first of the larger states to vote to ratify the document.
 
Births On This Day, December 12th 🎂

1950 Rajinikanth
Indian actor, screenwriter, producer

1923 Bob Barker
American game show host

1915 Frank Sinatra
American singer, actor

1881 Harry Warner
Polish/American businessman, co-founded Warner Bros.

1863 Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter

Deaths On This Day, December 12th 🪦

2007 Ike Turner
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1999 Joseph Heller
American author, playwright

1985 Anne Baxter
American actress

1968 Tallulah Bankhead
American actress

1889 Robert Browning
English poet
 
12th December

1948 Britain introduced National Service for all men aged between 18 and 26. It extended the British conscription of World War II into peacetime.

1955 Christopher Cockerell patented his prototype of the hovercraft. He had tested his theories using a hair-dryer and tin cans and found his work to have potential, but the idea took some years to develop, and he was forced to sell personal possessions in order to finance his research.

1966 English sailor Francis Chichester arrived at Sydney in his ketch Gipsy Moth IV - half way in his bid to become the first man to sail solo around the world.

1982 30,000 women formed a 9 mile human chain that encircled Greenham Common air base in Berkshire, in protest against the proposed siting of US Cruise missiles there.

2012 Ofcom announced that Internet shopping was more popular in the UK than in any other major country, with an annual average spend of £1,083 a year, compared with the second highest (Australia) at £842.

2013 Doctors in Derby and Nottingham analysing the Ian Fleming novels showed that James Bond drank the equivalent of one and a half bottles of wine every day. They said that he was not the man to trust to deactivate a nuclear bomb and that his love of the bottle would have left him impotent and at death’s door. 🥂🍷
 

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