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- S12011640 Portugal becomes independent of Spain
- S12011821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
- B12011886 Rex Stout, mystery writer
- B12011912 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (World Trade Center, NY)
- S12011913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
- B12011913 Mary Martin, actress/singer (Peter Pan, South Pacific)
- S12011917 Father Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town
- S12011918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
- S12011922 first skywriting over the US: "Hello USA" by Capt Turner, RAF.
- S12011929 Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
- B12011935 Woody Allen, actor, director (Manhatten, Annie Hall)
- S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds.
- S12011958 Central African Republic established (National Day)
- S12011959 first color photograph of Earth is received from outer space.
- S12011967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope
- S1202 Pan American Health Day
- S12021804 Napoleon becomes the first French emperor, crowning himself.
- S12021805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
- S12021816 1st savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund
- S12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
- B12021859 Georges Seurat, French painter, pointillist
- B12021885 George Minot, US physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
- B12021885 Níkos Kazantazakís, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek)
- B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
- B12021914 Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, The Sting)
- B12021915 Will Randolph Hearst, publisher, castle builder
- B12021923 Maria Callas, NY opera singer
- S12021942 1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago.
- S12021957 first commercial atomic electric power plant goes to work in PA.
- S12021971 Soviet Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
- S12021975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
- S12021982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
- S12031621 Galileo invents the telescope.
- B12031729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
- B12031924 John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN computer language
- B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker
- S12031954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned by the U.S. Senate. Not well remembered.
- S12031967 1st human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South Africa
- S12031973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (first fly-by of an outer planet).
- S12031985 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth
- S12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern,
- S12041912 Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
- S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
- S12041965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts
- S12051492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola
- S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded.
- B12051782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-1841)
- B12051839 George Armstrong Custer of Little Big Horn fame
- B12051901 Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
- B12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse.
- S12051978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
- S12061492 Haiti discovered by Columbus
- S12061534 Quito, Ecuador is founded by the Spanish
- S12061631 first predicted transit of Venus is observed, by Kepler.
- B12061822 John Eberhard, built 1st large scale pencil factory in US.
- B12061870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies
- S12061882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
- B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, poet (Trees)
- S12061917 Finland gains its independence, from Russia.
- S12061957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite - Vanguard rocket blows up.
- B12071761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
- S12071787 Delaware ratifies the Constitution, becomes the first state.
- S12071842 the New York Philharmonic plays its first concert.
- S12071941 Pearl Harbor is attacked ("A day that will live in infamy.")
- S12071941 first Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (USS Ward)
- S12071960 France grants the Ivory Coast independence (National Day)
- S12071972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
- B1208 65 BC Horace in Rome, poet
- B12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
- B12081865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer.
- B12081886 Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist
- B12081894 James Thurber
- B12081927 Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
- S12081931 Coaxial cable is patented
- B12091594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a big power (1611-32)
- S12091792 the first cremation in the US
- S12091793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper.
- B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, created the Uncle Remus stories
- B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, king of the frozen vegetables.
- S12091907 1st Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington Post Office.
- B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
- B12091918 Kirk Douglas, actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral, 7 Days in May)
- S12091961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain
- S12091978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
- S1210 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
- S1210 Human Rights Day, a United Nations observance.
- S12101520 Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding he recant.
- S12101817 Mississippi becomes 20th state
- B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet
- B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries
- S12101869 Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory
- S12101898 Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain
- S12101901 first Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy).
- S12101906 Theodore Roosevelt (first American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
- S12101920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize.
- S12101948 UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights
- S12101950 Ralph J. Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
- S12101963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
- S12101975 A. Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
- S12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
- S12101986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
- S1211 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
- B12111781 Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of kaleidoscope
- B12111803 Hector Berlioz in France, composer
- S12111816 Indiana becomes 19th state
- S12111917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
- B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writer, "Cancer Ward", Nobel 1970
- B12111931 Rita Moreno, actress (West Side Story), in Puerto Rico
- S12111932 Snow falls in San Francisco.
- S12111946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
- S12111958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
- S12111975 First Class Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents).
- S1212 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
- S1212 National Ding-a-ling Day
- S12121787 Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state
- B12121805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
- B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'.
- B12121852 Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
- S12121871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
- S12121901 Marconi receives 1st trans-Atlantic radio signal: England to US.
- B12121915 Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. Notorious for bad manners.
- S12121937 the first mobile TV unit, in New York.
- S12121963 Kenya gains its independence from Britain (National Day).
- S12121964 Russia launches Voshkod I, 1st multi-crew in space (3 men)
- S1213 Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini
- B12131835 Phillips Brooks, clergyman, composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
- S12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk.
- S12131918 Wilson becomes 1st to make a foreign visit while President.
- S12131920 Interferometer used to measure 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
- S12131974 Maltese Republic Day is declared.
- S12131978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued.
- S12131981 Solidarity Day, in Poland.
- S1214 Halcyon Days begin
- B12141503 Nostradamus, astrologer and physician
- B12141546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
- S12141819 Alabama becomes 22nd state
- B12141896 James H. Doolittle, sinker of ships and self
- S12141911 South Pole 1st reached by Amundsen.
- S12141962 Mariner 2 makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
- S1215 Bill of Rights Day
- S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval.
- B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris.
- S12151859 G.R. Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun
- B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto to be built and operated in US.
- S12151877 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- S12151939 the first commercial manufacture of nylon yarn.
- S12151964 American Radio Relay League, is founded. Dit-Dah.
- S12151965 first rendevous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up.
- S12151971 USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first craft to land on Venus.
- S12151984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
- B12161485 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
- S12161689 English Parlimnt adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
- B12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven, invented the classical symphony
- S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Indians most welcome.
- B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
- S12161893 Antonin Dvorák's New World Symphony premieres
- B12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
- S12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, 1st published.
- S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise
- B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author (Childhood's End, 2001).
- S12161965 Gemini VI returns to Earth
- B1217 Arthur Fiedler, conductor.
- S1217 first day of Saturnalia, Roman festival honoring Saturn
- S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
- S12171777 France recognizes independance of the 13 colonies in America.
- B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
- S12171790 an Aztec calendar stone is discovered in Mexico City.
- S12171791 New York City traffic regulation creates the 1st one-way street
- S12171843 Charles Dickens's classic, "A Christmas Carol" is published.
- S12171903 1st sustained motorized air flight at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, by the Wright Brothers (of course).
- S12171933 1st professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
- S12171969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki are married on network television in front of 50 million underwhelmed viewers.
- S12171979 Budweiser rocket car hits 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
- S1218 Saturnalia, celebrated with gifts, lights, closing of business
- S12181787 New Jersey becomes the 3rd state
- S12181849 William Bond takes first photograph of moon through a telescope
- S12181865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
- B12181886 Ty Cobb, baseball player.
- B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM).
- B12181913 Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel '71)
- B12181943 Keith Richard, singer (Rolling Stones)
- B12181947 Steven Spielberg, director (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Arc)
- B12181950 Leonard Maltin, movie reviewer
- S12181958 first voice from space: Christmas message by Eisenhower
- S12181958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
- S12181961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
- S12181965 Borman & Lovell splash down, ending 2 week Gemini VII orbit.
- S12181969 Britain abolishes the death penalty
- S12181985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns acts of hostage-taking
- S1218 Saturnalia, celebrated with gifts, lights, closing of business
- S1219 Underdog Day
- S12191686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
- S12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
- S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
- B12191790 Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
- S12191842 US recognizes the independence of Hawaii
- B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie.
- B12191852 Albert Michelson, took the measure of light, (Nobel 1907).
- S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
- S12191932 the BBC begins transmitting overseas.
- S12191946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks the French.
- S12191971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
- S12191986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
- S12201606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
- S12201699 Peter the Great orders Russian New Year changed: Sept 1 to Jan 1
- S12201790 first successful US cotton mill, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- S12201803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred from France to the US.
- B12201805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry
- S12201820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men from 21-50
- B12201833 Dr Samuel A. Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth
- S12201860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the union.
- B12201868 Harvey Firestone, tiremaker
- S12201892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
- S12201892 the pneumatic automobile tire is patented
- B12201904 Irene Dunne, actress, "Life With Father"
- S12201919 Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent with more than 50,000 kilometers of track in US & Canada)
- S12201922 14 states form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- S12201939 Radio Australia starts shortwave service
- S1221 Ursid meteor shower
- S1221 Winter Solstice (at 2:21 PM PDT), shortest day of the year.
- S12211620 The pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.
- B12211911 Josh Gibson, in professional baseball, the "Negro Babe Ruth"
- S12211913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World
- S12211937 the first feature-length cartoon with color and sound premieres, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Still one of the best.
- B12211940 Frank Zappa, rock singer (Grateful Dead)
- B12211944 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
- S12211968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell, Anders), first manned moon voyage
- S12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva: peace?
- S1222 International Arbor Day
- B12221696 James Oglethorpe, English general, author, colonizer of Georgia
- B12221727 William Ellery, signed Declaration of Independence
- B12221856 Frank Kellogg, Sec. of State, tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
- B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, composer
- S12221964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
- S12231672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
- S12231690 John Flamsteed sees Uranus but doesn't realize it's undiscovered
- B12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
- B12231805 Joesph Smith, founded Mormon church
- S12231920 Ireland is divided into two parts, each with its own parliament
- S12231947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley at Bell Labs
- S12231968 Borman, Lovell & Anders are the first men to orbit the moon.
- S12231973 six Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
- S12231975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
- S12231986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
- S1224 Christmas Eve
- S12241582 Vasco daGama Day
- B12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout.
- S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not arrive until after the Battle of New Orleans).
- S12241818 "Silent Night" is composed by Franz Gruber and sung next day
- S12241851 Library of Congress burns, 35,000 volumes are destroyed.
- S12241865 Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, TN
- S12241871 Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
- B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, moviemaker, plane builder.
- S12241906 the first radio program is broadcast, in Brant Rock, Mass
- S12241920 Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance
- B12241930 Robert Joffrey, Choreographer
- S12241936 first radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, CA
- S12241951 Libya gains independence from Italy
- S12241966 Soviet Luna 13 lands on moon
- S12241968 Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast seasons greetings from the moon.
- S1225 Christmas Day. Peace on Earth, good will towards men.
- B12250000 Jesus Christ, Savior, philosopher
- S1225 New Year's Day observed in England before 1068
- S1225 336 first recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25: in Rome
- S12251066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
- B12251642 Isaac Newton in Grantham, England
- S12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians.
- S12251868 Despite bitter opposition, Johnson grants unconditional pardons to everyone involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War).
- B12251899 Humphrey Bogart. Here's looking at you, kid.
- B12251918 Anwar Sadat, great Egyptian leader.
- S12251926 Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
- S12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
- S1226 Boxing Day, celebrated in Canada and the United Kingdom
- S1226 National Whiner's Day
- S12261492 first Spanish settlement in the new world founded, by Columbus.
- B12261792 Charles Babbage, invented the calculating machine
- B12261837 Adm. George Dewey, the American naval hero of Manila
- S12261865 James Mason invents the 1st American coffee percolator.
- B12261891 Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer)
- B12261893 Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame
- S12261933 US foreswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere. Ha!
- B12271571 Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical orbits.
- S12271825 first public steam railroad completed in England.
- S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
- S12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung.
- S12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
- S12271934 the first youth hostel is opened, in Northfield, Mass
- S12271945 International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
- S12271979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan
- S1228 Halcyon Days end
- S12281669 A patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple.
- S12281846 Iowa becomes the 29th state
- B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1912-1921)
- S12281890 Battle of Wounded Knee, SD - Last major conflict with Indians
- S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
- S12281912 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI was the 1st municpally-owned transit system)
- S1229 Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas à Beckett)
- B12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
- B12291808 Andrew Johnson, 17th President (1865-1869)
- B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman
- S12291845 Texas becomes the 28th state
- S12291848 Gas lights installed at White House for 1st time
- B12291876 Pablo Casals, cellist
- S12291911 San Francisco Symphony formed.
- S12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
- S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service.
- S12291949 first UHF TV station operating regular basis, Bridgeport CT
- S12291952 first transistorized hearing aid offered for sale, Elmsford NY
- S12301809 Wearing masks at balls is forbidden in Boston
- S12301817 first coffee planted in Hawaii
- B12301851 Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
- S12301853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
- B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, author, loved India, (Nobel 1907)
- B12301884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese Prime Minister in WWII
- S12301924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems
- S12301938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
- S12301975 Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded
- S1231 Make Up Your Mind Day
- S1231 New Year's Eve
- S12311600 British East India Company chartered
- S12311744 James Bradley announces earth's motion of nutation (wobbling).
- S12311857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
- S12311862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks off Cape Hatteras, NC
- B12311869 Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter
- S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US).
- S12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
- B12311880 George C Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
- S12311890 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration depot
- S12311946 President Truman officially proclaims the end of World War II
- S12311961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
- S12311974 US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for 1st time in 40 years
- S12311999 Control of the Panama Canal reverts to Panama
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