On This Day in History

December 3, 1960:

CANADA GETS TWO MILLIONTH POST-WAR IMMIGRANT
Quebec Quebec - - Annette Toft arrives at Quebec City from Denmark; Canada's 2,000,000th immigrant since 1945.

 

On December 3rd, 1979, 11 people were killed in Cincinnati trying to get seats to hear the Who.

 

On December 4th in 1945, the Senate approved United States participation in the United Nations.

 

On December 5th in 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.

 

December 5th, 1945. Flight 19 was lost in the Bermuda Triangle....

 

December 5, 1902:

WIRELESS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia - Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi 1874-1937 transmits the first readable wireless radio signals 3,200 km across the Atlantic from his station at Glace Bay, Cape Breton to Poldhu in Cornwall, England. Two years earlier, he had sent a message across the English Channel; on Dec. 12, 1901, he had sent the first transatlantic wireless test signal - the letter 'S' repeated over and over - from Poldhu to his assistant Percy Wright Paget flying a box kite trailing a 121 metre long copper wire antenna on Signal Hill, St. John's. Nfld. The Canadian government gave Marconi $80 000 to set up wireless operations at Glace Bay, after nervous Newfoundland undersea cable companies, claiming a monopoly on transatlantic messages, booted him off the island. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada Ltd. - today's Canadian Marconi Company - was chartered in 1902.

 

On December 6th in 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress.

 

On December 6th, 1941, Richard Speck was born.

So next year in this thread, this will be the day I had my new kitchen table delivered. (I just hope richard speck doesn't come over and kill it)

 

On December 7th in 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, an act that led to America’s entry into World War II.

 

On December 8th in 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

 

also on december 8th 1980 John Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman

 

December 8, 1869:

START OF RED RIVER REBELLION

Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 issues the Declaration of the People of Rupert's Land and the North West; declares that the sale to Canada of Rupert's Land (the HBC territory) without their consent entitles people to set up their own government; many in Canada privately agree, including Militia Minister George-Etienne Cartier.

 

I was watching Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell announced he had been shot. I can remember it like it was yesterday.