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December 3rd
1815 ~ Death of John Carroll - First Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
1857 ~ Birthday of Joseph Conrad, Writer.
1894 ~ Death of Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer.
1919 ~ Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Painter.
1947 ~ ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1967 ~ At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, Lewis Washkansky became the first human to receive a heart transplant. The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard.
1984 ~ Bhopal Disaster: A leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed nearly 3,000 people in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1989 ~ Formal end of the Cold War.
1999 ~ NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander just before it entered the Martian atmosphere.
1999 ~ Death of Madeline Kahn, Actress & Comedian.
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December 4th
1110 ~ The Crusaders captured Sidon.
1642 ~ Death of Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman.
1674 ~ Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan which would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois.
1679 ~ Death of Thomas Hobbes, political philosopher.
1849 ~ Birthday of Crazy Horse, American Indian leader.
1872 ~ The Mary Celeste was found by the British brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged.
1945 ~ The U.S. Senate approved United States participation in the United Nations.
1976 ~ Death of Benjamin Britten, Composer.
1980 ~ Led Zeppelin announced its breakup.
1981 ~ Birthday of Courtney Cummz, Porn actress.
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December 6th
1884 ~ The Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, banning slavery, was ratified.
1889 ~ Death of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
1917 ~ A munitions explosion killed more than 1,900 people and destroyed part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1920 ~ Birthday of Dave Brubeck, jazz musician.
1929 ~ Birthday of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor.
1947 ~ Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Truman.
1957 ~ The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit, Vanguard TV3, was renamed 'Flopnik'.
1989 ~ Marc Lépine killed 14 women in Montreal, Quebec.
1992 ~ In Ayodhya, India, Hindus demolished the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque.
2002 ~ Death of Philip Berrigan, civil rights activist.
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December 8th
1864 ~ Death of George Boole, Mathematician.
1925 ~ Birthday of Sammy Davis Jr., Actor & Singer.
1939 ~ Birthday of James Galway, Irish flutist.
1941 ~ The U.S. entered World War II when Congress declared war against Japan.
1953 ~ President Eisenhower gave the "Atoms for Peace" speech.
1978 ~ Death of Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel.
1980 ~ Mark Chapman murdered former Beatle John Lennon.
1991 ~ Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine signed an agreement ending the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993 ~ President Clinton signed U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
2010 ~ The Japanese solar-sail demonstration spacecraft IKAROS passed Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
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December 12th
1531 ~ Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City.
1911 ~ The capital of India moved from Calcutta to New Delhi.
1927 ~ Birthday of Robert Noyce, one of the men credited with the invention of the integrated circuit.
1963 ~ Kenya gained its independence from the UK. Uhuru!
1967 ~ Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones avoided a prison term for narcotics.
1979 ~ Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe.
1999 ~ Death of Joseph Heller, Author.
2000 ~ The U.S.Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore.
2006 ~ Death of Peter Boyle, Actor.
2006 ~ Death of Al Shugart, Computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology.
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December 13th
1642 ~ Abel Janszoon Tasman reached New Zealand.
1784 ~ Death of Samuel Johnson, Essayist.
1818 ~ Birthday of Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady.
1939 ~ The Admiral Graf Spee engaged Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate.
1945 ~ Execution of Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal.
1972 ~ Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final EVA of Apollo 17. They are, to date, the last men to walk on the Moon.
1981 ~ Martial law imposed in Poland to try to control the Solidarity labor movement.
1996 ~ Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2002 ~ Death of Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician (The Lovin' Spoonful).
2003 ~ Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured near Tikrit.
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December 17th
1778 ~ Birthday of Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist & physicist.
1830 ~ Death of Simón Bolívar, South American Liberator.
1843 ~ A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published.
1903 ~ The first controlled, powered heavier-than-air flight occurred when the Wright brothers took to the air, both of them twice at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1961 ~ India seized Goa from Portugal.
1969 ~ The USAF, in closing Project Blue Book, announced that its UFO investigations found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1976 ~ Birthday of Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Jaimee Foxworth, mainstrean & Porn Actress.
1982 ~ ”Tootsie” opened in theaters.
1989 ~ The pilot episode of The Simpsons aired.
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