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Post by Tamrin on Dec 1, 2008 6:02:38 GMT 10
1 DecemberLiberia: Matilda Newport Day (1822) 1804 - Emperor Napoleon marries Joséphine of Martinique 1930 - Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the continent (America) 1941 - Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war 1955 - Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus 1973 - Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea 1988 - Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 2, 2008 5:36:18 GMT 10
2 December1697 - St Paul's Cathedral opens in London 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte crowned 1st emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII 1859 - John Brown US abolitionist, hanged in Charles Town WV at 59 1929 - 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien 1941 - (US) Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul 1941 - Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2008 5:53:50 GMT 10
3 December(International Day of People With disAbilities) 1557 - 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form 1676 - Daniel Stalpaert - Amsterdam's master builder, buried 1838 - Birthday of Octavia Hill - British reformer, leader of open-space movement 1948 - 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in 1962 - Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2008 5:52:18 GMT 10
4 December (Commemoration of St Barbara, Patron Saint of Masons) (México: Day of the Artisans) 1154 - Adrian IV, 54, was elected to the papacy. Born Nicholas Breakspear, near St. Albans, England, he was the only Englishman ever elevated to the office of pope. 1807 - Prince Hall activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston 1829 - Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) 1906 - Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms 1915 - Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County GA 1978 - Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 5, 2008 5:52:15 GMT 10
5 December(Thailand - King's Birthday) 1484 - Innocent VIII issued his famous "Witch Bull," ordering an inquisition to systematically discover, torture and execute witches throughout Europe. It led to the ease with which witchcraft was charged and punished, even in the American colonies two centuries later. 1594 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82 1776 - Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity (William & Mary College), is founded 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna, Austria, at 35 1901 - Birthday of Walter Elias Disney, Chicago IL, animator (Mickey Mouse) 1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (New York NY)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 6, 2008 6:11:28 GMT 10
6 December1631 - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed 1768 - 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) 1793 - Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry mistress of Louis XV, beheaded 1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland 1929 - Turkey introduces female suffrage
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 7, 2008 8:26:45 GMT 10
7 December(US: Pearl Harbor Day, 1941) 1817 - William Bligh British naval officer of "Bounty" and "Rum Rebellion" fame dies in London at 63 1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies 1912 - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt 1941 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) 1965 - The Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches formally reconciled themselves by reversing a mutual excommunication of each other, dating back (over 900 years!) to July 1054 1979 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1st woman full professor at Harvard University, dies
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 8, 2008 5:45:47 GMT 10
8 December(Buddhist-Japan: Enlightenment of the Buddha) 0644 - Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered 1587 - Mary Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed 1894 - Birthday of James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus OH, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs) 1916 - Birthday of Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union representative 1978 - Golda Meir Israel's PM 1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 9, 2008 6:15:44 GMT 10
9 December(Jewish: Hanukkah-Festival of Lights) (Moslem: 1st day of Ramadan, 1420 AH) 1315 - Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) 1608 - Birthday of John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost) 1869 - Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia 1870 - The Society of Biblical Archaeology was founded in London... 1905 - French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state 2340 - Birthday of Worf Klingon, character on Star Trek Next Generation
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2008 5:41:02 GMT 10
10 December(World Freedom Day) (Human Rights Day, 60th Anniversary) Nobel Prize Presentation Day (1896): - 1901 - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
- 1903 - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
- 1907 - [Bro.] Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
- 1950 - 1st black American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - Ralph J. Bunche
- 1954 - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1815 - Birthday of Ada Byron (Lovelace), London England, considered the first computer programmer 1824 - Birthday of George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Lilith, Princess & Curdie) 1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) 1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson 1938 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
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