December's History

DECEMBER HISTORY:

1st December:
1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1981 – The AIDS virus is officially recognized.

2nd December:
1409 – The University of Leipzig opens.
1983 – Michael Jackson's Thriller music video is released.

3rd December:
1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
1979 – Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.

4th December:
1110 – First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.
1909 – 1st Grey Cup game was played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26–6.

5th December:
1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
1746 – Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.

6th December:
1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
1965 – Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.

7th December:
1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.

8th December:
1987 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

9th December:
1425 – The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.

10th December:
1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1955 – The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.

11th December:
1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

12th December:
1963 – Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.

13th December:
1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.

14th December:
1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends.
1009 – Birthday of Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045).

15th December:
1868 – Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687. This accident is the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history.
1954 –Birthday of Mark Warner, American politician.

16th December:
1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother.
1971 – Independence Day of the State of Bahrain from British Protectorate Status.
1991 – Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.

17th December:
1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and was presumed drowned.

18th December:
1878 – Al-Thani Familiy became the rulers of the state of Qatar.
1915 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
1956 – Japan joins the United Nations.

19th December:
324 – Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
1835 – The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio.
1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires.

20th December:
1835 – First signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Goliad, Texas.
1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded.
1942 – World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.
1995 – NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.

21st December:
1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film ever, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
1962 – Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.

22nd December:
1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
1989 – After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist dictatorship.

23rd December:
1893 – The opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
1937 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1979 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
2004 – Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.

24th December:
1914 – World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
1946 – France's Fourth Republic is founded.
1979 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched.

25th December:
1599 – The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.
1620 – Elizabeth Báthory's crimes were uncovered.

26th December:
1805 – Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
1933 – The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan.
1996 – Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.

27th December:
537 – The Hagia Sophia is completed.
1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.

28th Decmeber:
1308 – The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
1950 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

29th December:
1845 – Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
1939 – First flight of the Consolidated B-24.

30th December:
1906 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
1919 – Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.

31st December:
406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
1599 – The British East India Company is chartered.
1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1923 – The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
1944 – World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
2007 – The massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends.