DECEMBER 1 — 1824 The Corrupt Bargain; 1929 Edwin Lowe patents Bingo!; 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to sit down
DECEMBER 2 — 1823 Monroe Doctrine declared; EPA established; 1777 Lydia Darrah alledgedly hears British attacks plans
DECEMBER 3 — 1818 Illinois becomes 21st state; 1941 FDR does not get answer from Japan regarding Thailand; 1924 Happy Birthday John Backus (FORTRANS); 1826 Happy Birthday George McLellan
DECEMBER 4 — 1918 Wilson goes oversees; 1941 Japanese WWII news; 2009 Foxy Knoxy convicted of murder; 1997 Sprewell suspended from NBA
DECEMBER 5 — 1782 Happy Birthday Martin Van Buren; 1933 Prohibition ends
DECEMBER 6 — 1941 Pre-Pearl Harbor news; 1884 Washington Monument completed; Thomas Edison sketches phonograph; 2006 Iraq Study Group urges pullback of U.S. troops; MUSIC: 2007 Billy Joel releases Christmas in Fallujah, 1988 Roy Orbison dies
DECEMBER 7 — 1941 FDR announced Day in Infamy; 1979 Cecilia Helena dies (astronomist); 1787 Delaware joins Union
DECEMBER 8 — 1941 Changes in America; 1938 Highest temperature in La Mesa, California; 1980 John Lennon assassinated in front of his New York City apartment
DECEMBER 9 — 1835 Texas Army captures San Antonio; 1941 Panic hits America; 1981 Abu-Jamal kills police officer
DECEMBER 10 — 1778 John Jay elected President of Congress; 1906 Walter Zinn (first self-sustaining nuclear reactor); 2006 Ladanian Tomlinson breaks single season touchdown record
DECEMBER 11 — 1941 Newspaper Headlines; 2008 Bernie Madoff gets arrested; 1969 Soviets condemn Oh! Calcutta for nude scenes; 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis marries 13-year old cousin
DECEMBER 12 — 1917 Fr. Flanagan opens up Boys Town; INVENTION/PATENTS: 1927 Happy Birthday Robert Noyce (mayor of Silicone Valley), 1946 Tide laundry detergent introduced; 1989 Leone Helmsley sentenced to prison
DECEMBER 13 — 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg; 1918 Wilson meets with Europe about League of Nations; 1941 White House Christmas Tree lighted
DECEMBER 14 — 2012 Newtown Massacre; 2005 Bush blames faulty intel on Iraq invasion; WWII in America; MUSIC: 1959 Rock n Roll only cool with teens, 1968 Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” goes #1, 1972 Alexander’s department store open late for Alice Cooper, 1980 Central Park mourning for John Lennon
DECEMBER 15 — 1791 Bill of Rights ratified; 1864 Battle of Nashville; 1941 December 1941 Headlines; 1982 Parcells begins coaching NY Giants
DECEMBER 16 — 1773 Boston Tea Party QUIZ; 1941 Tokyo propaanda; 1997 Pokemon episode causes seizures in children in Japan; 1966 Hendrix’s Hey Joe released
DECEMBER 17 — 1903 Wright brothers make 1st successful flight; INVENT/PATENT: 1797 Happy Birthday Joseph Henry (electromagnetism), 1895 George Brownell (new paper style); 1862 grant expels Jews from his department; 2000 T.O. makes record breaking 20th touchdown catch
DECEMBER 18 — 1972 Nixon announces Christmas Bombing Campaign; 1890 Happy Birthday Edwin Howard Armstrong (FM Radio); 1867 Angola Horror; 1941 December 1941 Headlines; 2003 Michael Jackson charged with lewd conduct on children
DECEMBER 19 — 1777 Washington hunkers down at Valley Forge; INVENT/PATENT: 1943 Happy Birthday William Devries (1st artificial heart surgery), 1871 Albert Jones patents corrugated paper for packaging, 1854 Allen Wilson patents sewing machine for curving seams; 1732 Poor Richard’s Almanac published; 1941 Internment camps establishment announced for enemy aliens
DECEMBER 20 — 1803 French hand Orleans to U.S.; 1989 America invades Panama; 2007 CSI Crime Lab toy recalled
DECEMBER 21 — 1970 Nixon meets with…Elvis?’; 1949 Hedy Lamarr, co-discoverer of Spread Spectrum, stars in Samson and Delilah; 1941 Japan sink two American oil ships near San Francisco; 1968 Apollo 8 crew sees Santa Claus; 1997 Barry Sanders becomes NFL’s 3rd best rusher; 1994 Tom Shales, Washington Post, cuts down Kathie Lee Gifford’s Christmas special
DECEMBER 22 — 1968 Happy Anniversary Julie Nixon, David Eisenhower; 1882 Edison invents Christmas Tree lights; 1978 Killer Clown John Wayne Gacy confesses to murder; 2004 Forward Operating Base Marez bombing in Mosul, Iraq; 1995 Cutthroat Island premieres; 2009 Sleigh Ride most popular Holiday Song; 1971 Lakers get 27th straight win
DECEMBER 23 — 1986 Voyager completes global flight; 1947 Shockley/Brattain/Bardeen invent transistor; 1919 Alice Parker patents gas heating furnace; 1883 Maj. Rathbone snaps; 1972 The Immaculate Reception
DECEMBER 24 — 1923 Coolidge lights 1st national Christmas Tree; 1905 Happy Birthday Howard Hughes; 1994 R.I.P. Nat Daniel, guitar designer; 1912 Irving Fisher patents economic archiving system using index numbers; 1955 NORAD begins using Santa Tracker
CHRISTMAS — 1914 Germans and British stop fighting to celebrate Christmas; 1862 Elijah Roades writes Christmas Memoirs, Bing Crosby introduces White Christmas, all-time best selling song; 1776 Washington crosses icy Delaware River
DECEMBER 26 — 1820 Moses Austin asks Spanish for Texas colony; 1919 — Red Sox trades Babe Ruth to Yankees, beings curse?; 1966 1st Kwanzaa
DECEMBER 27 — 1932 Radio City Music Hall opens; INVENTION/PATENTS: 1931 R.I.P. Melvil Dewey (Dewey Decimal System); 1865 James Mason patents coffee percolator; 1908 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns; 1944 FDR seizes control of Montgomery Wards
DECEMBER 28 — 1856 Happy Birthday Woodrow Wilson; INVENTIONS/PATENTS: 1869 William Semple patents chewing gum, 1877 John Stevens applies for patent for flour rolling mill
DECEMBER 29 — 1808 Happy Birthday Andrew Johnson; INVENTIONS/PATENTS: 1900 Happy Birthday Charles Goodyear, 1921 Happy Birthday Robert Baker (invented chicken nugget), 1891 Edison patents radio
DECEMBER 30 — 1853 Gadsden Purchase is signed; 1903 Iroquois Theater burns down; SPORTS: 1907 Abner Doubleday named inventor of game of baseball, 2013 Redskins fire Shanahan
NEW YEARS EVE — 1941 Kennedy and Khruschev exchange holiday pleasantries; 1941 Citizen Kane becomes movie of the year; 1926 Prohibition leads to chemical warfare with U.S. Government; 1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly game
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