Today in History

Births On This Day, December 8th 🎂

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

1542 Mary, Queen of Scots

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
 

1915
WWI soldier/physician/ poet, John McCrae's poem' In Flander's Fields is published anonymously in 'Punch ' magazine
1941
Pres Franklin Roosevelt delivers his famous' Day In Infamy' speech to a joint session of Congress ,day after Pearl Harbor was bombed
1976
The Eagles' 5th studio album' Hotel California' is released had 2 hit singles, the title track,' New Kid in Town'. The album sold over 30 million copies
1978
movie' The Deer Hunter' directed by Michael Cimino, story of 3 steel working friends who lives are changed after coming home after serving in Vietnam. It stars Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale,movie won 5 Oscars inc pic/director, supp actor{Walken}
1993
Pres Bill Clinton signs into law NAFTA{North American Free Trade Act} trade pact between U.S,Canada,&Mexico,to eliminate all tariffs,trade restrictions between the 3 countries. It created the world's largest free trade zone
2021
Olaf Scholtz sworn in as Germany's new Chancellor replacing Angela Merkel after 16 yrs
 
On This Day In History, December 9th

1979 Smallpox was declared eradicated
The World Health Organization officially certified that after several concentrated vaccination campaigns worldwide, smallpox had been eradicated. Only two infectious diseases have been completely eradicated in history; the other is Rinderpest, an infectious disease of cattle that was eradicated in 2011.

1965 Charlie Brown Christmas airs for the first time 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 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
 
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 1951

Santa Claus and angels were banned in Hungary at Christmas. Pictures of tractors holding gifts would replace Santa Claus and his elves.

Cardinal Saliège, archbishop of Toulouse, who wrote in a letter to his diocese: "Do not speak of Santa Claus to our children, for the very reason that he does not exist and never has. Do not talk of Santa Claus, for Santa Claus is an invention that clever people use to take away the religious character of Christmas."
 
1799
the metric system is 1st adopted by France
1901
The 1st Nobel Peace Prizes are award to Jean Henri Dunant, founder of Red Cross, peace activist, Frederic Passy
1936
Edward VIII gives up British throne to marry divorcee, Wallis Simpson. Their marriage lasted 35 yrs until his death in May 1972. Simpson had been married twice before
1962
movie, 'Lawrence of Arabia' directed by David Lean is released, bio of adventurer, T.E. Lawrence
It stars Peter O'Toole, Alec Guiness, Anthony Quinn,Omar Sharif,movie won 7 Oscars inc pic/dir This was 1st leading role for O'Toole which started his film career
1971
film director, George Lucas creates Lucas film LTD, a production&TV production company in San Francisco
1991
architect, I.M.Pei receives $5 mill for designing Rock &Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio
2013
Mary Barra becomes the 1st female CEO of General Motors,major automobile company
 
On This Day In History, December 11th

2008 Bernard Madoff arrested
Popularly known as Bernie Madoff, the founder and chairman of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was arrested and subsequently convicted of fraud. The Ponzi scheme he was involved in was the biggest such fraud in the history of the United States.

1997 Kyoto Protocol adopted
The Protocol is a part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an international treaty that calls for the restriction of greenhouse gasses by the signatories. The United States signed the treaty but did not ratify it.

1946 UNICEF established
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, a U.N. affiliate organization that works for the welfare of children around the world, was founded on this day.

1941 U.S. declares war on Germany and Italy
The U.S. responded to Italy and Germany's declaration of war, by declaring war on the two countries.

1936 King Edward VIII abdicates from the British throne
King Edward VIII abdicated from the British throne to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson.


Abdication Speech
 
Births On This Day, December 11th 🎂

1973 Mos Def
American rapper, actor

1969 Viswanathan Anand
Indian chess player

1967 Mo'Nique
American comedian, actress

1943 John Kerry
American politician, 68th United States Secretary of State

1725 George Mason
American politician

Deaths On This Day, December 11th 🪦

2012 Ravi Shankar
Indian/American sitar player, composer

2008 Bettie Page
American model, actress

1997 Eddie Chapman
English spy

1959 Jim Bottomley
American baseball player, sportscaster

1918 Ivan Cankar
Slovenian poet, playwright
 
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 became 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
 
On This Day In History, December 13th

2003 Saddam Hussein Captured
Saddam Hussein, the fifth president of Iraq, was found hiding in a camouflaged hole in the ground and was captured by American forces near Tikrit, Iraq. The military operation that led to his capture was called Operation Red Dawn. He was subsequently handed over to the interim Iraqi government. After a trial where he was found guilty of crimes against humanity, he was executed 3 years after his capture in December 2006.

2001 Attack on the Indian parliament
The Indian parliament, the Sansad, was attacked by terrorists. 15 people, including the terrorists, were killed during the attack.

1972 Last human landing on the Moon
Apollo 17 was the last mission of the United States' Apollo lunar landing program. It was also the sixth and the last time humans landed on the Moon.

1795 Meteorite crashes into Wold Newton in Yorkshire, England.
Major Edward Topham owned the land where the meteorite crashed. He exhibited it later, and today it is in the Natural History Museum in London.

1642 First European to Reach New Zealand
Abel Tasman, a Dutch explorer and merchant, reached the coast of South Island in New Zealand and named it Staten Landt. Tasman was also the first European in recorded history to step foot on Tasmania, an island state in Australia. Tasman claimed the island for the Dutch crown. It is named after him as well.
 
Births On This Day, December 13th 🎂

1989 Taylor Swift
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress

1948 Ted Nugent
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor

1936 Aga Khan IV
Swiss/French 49th Nizari Ismaili Imam

1902 Talcott Parsons
American sociologist

1818 Mary Todd Lincoln
American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States

Deaths On This Day, December 13th 🪦

2010 Richard Holbrooke
American journalist, banker, diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations

2005 Stanley Williams
American gang leader co-founded the Crips

1944 Wassily Kandinsky
Russian/French painter

1784 Samuel Johnson
English author, lexicographer

1204 Maimonides
Spanish rabbi, philosopher
 
1769
Darmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire receives its charter
1920
International Court of Justice is established by League of Nations
1961
The Beatles sign a formal agreement to have Brain Epstein as their manager
1975
for the 1st time, NBC"s sketch comedy show Sat Night Live uses a time delay because comedian Richard Pryor was hosting
1989
movie' Driving Miss Daisy' based on Alfred Uhry's play is released directed by Bruce Beresford
The story of a 25 yr friendship between a aging Southern woman and the black man who is hired by her son to become her chauffeur. The movie stars Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy{Best Actress Oscar}, Dan Aykroyd-plays Tandy's son. The movie won 4 Oscars,pic,actress, screenplay, makeup
 
On This Day In History, December 14th

2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

1961 Tanzania joins the United Nations
Tanzania was created as a merger of Tanganyika and the Zanzibar Archipelago, both under British rule until independence.

1958 Soviets Reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility
A Pole of Inaccessibility is an extremely difficult location on Earth to access. In the North, it is the point in the Arctic Ocean that is farthest from land, while in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the point farthest from the Southern Ocean on Antarctica. In 1958, a Soviet team led by Yevgeny Tolstikov became the first people in history to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, 546 miles (878 kilometres) from the geographic South Pole. Temperatures at this location average around – 73 degrees F (–58 degrees C).

1939 USSR expelled from the League of Nations
The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations for making aggressive demands of Finland.

1911 Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole, becoming the first man in recorded history to set foot on the most southern point on Earth.
 
Births On This Day, December 14th 🎂

1988 Vanessa Hudgens
American actress, singer

1966 Fabrizio Giovanardi
Italian race car driver

1947 Dilma Rousseff
Brazilian politician, economist, 36th President of Brazil

1546 Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer, chemist

1503 Nostradamus
French astrologer

Deaths On This Day, December 14th 🪦

2013 Peter O'Toole
Irish actor

1989 Andrei Sakharov
Russian physicist

1947 Stanley Baldwin
English politician

1943 John Harvey Kellogg
American surgeon, co-created Corn flakes

1799 George Washington
American general, politician, 1st President of the United States
 
On This Day In History, December 15th

2009 Maiden flight of Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Considered to be one of Boeing's most fuel-efficient aeroplanes, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner has suffered from problems associated with its lithium-ion batteries.

1978 US recognizes China
30 years after the creation of the People's Republic of China, President Jimmy Carter announced that the United States would formally recognize the communist country starting January 1, 1979. The announcement also called for the severing of relations with Taiwan, a position that was quickly reversed under protests.

1939 Premier of the Gone with the Wind
The award-winning film was adapted from the Pulitzer winner Margaret Mitchell's book by the same name.

1933 Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution comes into effect
Ratified on December 5 of the same year, the amendment repealed the prohibition on alcohol in the United States, which came into force on January 17, 1920, when the 18th amendment took effect.

1791 U.S. Bill of Rights becomes law
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States are known as the Bill of Rights. They became law after Virginia ratified the amendments.
 
Births On This Day, December 15th 🎂

1986 Junsu
South Korean singer-songwriter, actor

1979 Eric Young
Canadian wrestler

1928 Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian/New Zealand painter, and architect, designed the Kuchlbauer Tower, Waldspirale

1907 Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters, Cathedral of Brasília

37 Nero
Roman Emperor

Deaths On This Day, December 15th 🪦

2013 Harold Camping
American broadcaster, author

2011 Christopher Hitchens
English/American journalist, author

2010 Bob Feller
American baseball player

1966 Walt Disney
American animator, director, screenwriter, and producer, co-founded The Company

1950 Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian activist, politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India
 
1791
the 1st U.S. law school is established at Univ of Pennsylvania
1929
Swiss aviator/ pilot, Walter Mittleholzer become the 1st person to fly over Mt. Kiliminjaro
1944
U.S. band leader/ jazz composer, Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel
1973
5 months after being kidnapped, JOhn Paul Getty III is freed after his grandfather, JOhn Paul Getty paid $ 3 mill ransom. The kidnappers sent to a local Rome newspaper, Getty's severed ear& lock of hair
1979
Chris Haney&Scott Abbott develop the board game 'Trivial Pursuit'
2001
The Leaning Tower of Piza is reopened after 11yrs, $27 mill for repairs, The engineers didn't fix the lean instead they dug out earth from beneath the foundation to preserve the tower. Today,only guided tours are allowed inside
 
15th December


1958 Crewe Works built its last steam engine, a Class 9 freight locomotive, engine number 92250. It was their 7,331st locomotive since the works were built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway.

1961 Adolph Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, was sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including war crimes, charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

1982 Spain opened border with the Rock. The gates isolating the people of Gibraltar from Spain were opened to pedestrians after 13 years. Spain's new socialist government opened the frontier for "humanitarian reasons" at one minute after midnight this morning. A Spanish police official in plain clothes unceremoniously unlocked the gates for both sides.

1993 The British and Irish prime ministers John Major and Albert Reynolds signed the historic Joint Declaration for Peace which they hoped would end 25 years of bombing and murder in Northern Ireland.

2015 Forty three year old astronaut Major Tim Peake became the first Briton to serve a mission on the International Space Station. He took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 11:03am GMT, alongside Nasa astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko.
 
On This Day In History, December 16th

2010 Last episode of Larry King Live aired
After 25 years of being on TV, the last episode of Larry King Live, one of CNN's most-watched TV programs was aired. While the official end date for the talk show was December 16, an episode on cancer was aired two days later on December 18. It was replaced by Piers Morgan Tonight.

1991 Kazakhstan independence
The Central Asian country was the last Soviet republic to declare its independence.

1971 End of Indo-Pakistani War
The third major conflict between the two countries was fought because India supported Bangladesh's War of Liberation. The war ended only after 13 days and with the creation of the independent state of Bangladesh.

1773 Boston Tea Party
Considered one of the key events in the American Revolution, the Tea Party occurred when protesters in Boston, a territory controlled by the British, dumped heavily taxed British tea into Boston Harbor.

1707 Last eruption of Mount Fuji
The highest volcano in Japan erupted for the last time in what is known as the Hōei Eruption. The eruption lasted for 17 days.
 
Births On This Day, December 16th 🎂

1917 Arthur C. Clarke
English author

1901 Margaret Mead
American anthropologist

1866 Wassily Kandinsky
Russian/French painter

1775 Jane Austen
English author

1485 Catherine of Aragon

Deaths On This Day, December 16th 🪦

1988 Sylvester
American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer

1980 Colonel Sanders
American businessman founded KFC

1965 W. Somerset Maugham
French/English author, playwright

1515 Afonso de Albuquerque
Portuguese Admiral

705 Wu Zetian
Chinese empress
 

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