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December 1st
1083 ~ Birthday of Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian.
1824 ~ U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the House of Representatives was given the task to decide the winner, as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment.
1835 ~ Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
1919 ~ Lady Astor became the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.
1935 ~ Birthday of Woody Allen, Film Director & Actor & Comedian.
1955 ~ Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man and was arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws.
1959 ~ The Antarctic Treaty signed, which set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and banned military activity.
1964 ~ Death of J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist.
1990 ~ English and French Channel Tunnel workers met beneath the English Channel.
1991 ~ Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
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December 2rd
1547 ~ Death of Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror.
1814 ~ Death of Marquis de Sade, Writer.
1859 ~ Militant abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
1923 ~ Birthday of Maria Callas, Opera Singer.
1942 ~ Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1954 ~ Senator McCarthy was censured for conduct unbecoming to a senator.
1961 ~ Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.
1981 ~ Birthday of Isabella Soprano, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ War on Drugs: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
1991 ~ Apple release the first version of QuickTime.
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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
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.
1991 ~ Pan American World Airways ceased operations.
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November 5th
1791 ~ Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.
1839 ~ Birthday of George Armstrong Custer, American general.
1847 ~ Jefferson Davis was elected to the U.S. Senate.
1890 ~ Birthday of Fritz Lang, film director. It was in his film "Frau im Mond" that the countdown (10, 9, 8 ...) was first used; in this instance, for dramatic effect.
1901 ~ Birthday of Werner Heisenberg, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1932.
1901 ~ Birthday of Walt Disney, film producer.
1926 ~ Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, debuted.
1933 ~ Prohibition ended: The Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified. This overturned the 18th Amendment, which had outlawed the inter-state sale of alcohol.
1969 ~ Time Magazine reported the My Lai Massacre.
1995 ~ The Sri Lankan armed forces took Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers.
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December 6th
1768 ~ First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published.
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 kills more than 1,900 people and destroys 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.
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 12th
1531 ~ Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City.
1911 ~ The capital of India moved from Calcutta to New Delhi.
1915 ~ Birthday of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor.
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.
1984 ~ birthday of Andy O'Neill, Brazilian Porn Actor.
1999 ~ Death of Joseph Heller, Author.
2000 ~ The U.S.Supreme Court released its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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