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On November 30th 1979- The album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd was released.
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Also on November 30, 1975, Mindy McCready was born...
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Also on Dec. 1, 1959, representatives of 12 countries, including the United States, signed a treaty in Washington setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity
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Today is World AIDS Day
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On December 2nd, 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
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Also on December 2, 1944, Cathy Lee Crosby was born...
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Also on Dec. 3, 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India
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On Dec. 3, 1979 – In Cincinnati, Ohio, eleven fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert .
----- On Dec. 4, 1674 - Chicago: was founded with a mission established by French priest Jacques Marquette on the shore of Lake Michigan . |
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On Dec. 5, 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
----- On Dec. 6, 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. |
On December 7, 1956, Priscilla Barnes was born...
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My parents,both in there 90's now,lived on Ford Island in the center of Pearl Harbor. The dark patch on the lower left of the island was the housing area,battleship row is just to the left. xoxoxoo |
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On Dec. 7 1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the photograph "The Blue Marble" (pictured), the first clear image of an illuminated face of Earth, on their way to the Moon.
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8 December, 1980.... The Music Died a Second Time - John Lennon murdered by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakotas.
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On Dec. 8...
The last time a National Football League team member played without a helmet was during the 1940 NFL Championship Game. Chicago Bears' end Dick Plasman hardly needed to cover his head. His team beat the rival Washington Redskins, 73-0, in the most lopsided game in NFL history, on December 8, 1940. It was a home game for the 'Skins, who had beat the Bears, 7-3, just three weeks earlier. When the Bears decided to get even, they pulled out all the stops. Late in the game, officials begged Bears coach George Halas not to kick for extra points; they were running out of footballs, since so many had flown through the uprights into the crowd. |
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On Dec. 8, 1979, grumpy and sweet, sweet QW formally joined forces against the maelstrom, and, if only just to piss off all of the naysayers, have persevered. I've requested that she stick around for at least 30 years more. Graciously, she has accepted. |
On December 9, 1950, Joan Armatrading was born...
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On Dec. 9, 1979 – A World Health Organization commission of eminent scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated from nature.
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Why are the Nobel Prizes always given out on the 10th of December? http://content.answers.com/main/cont...a_93534603.jpg Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel died on December 10, 1896. In his will he left instructions for the establishment of a foundation which would award monetary prizes to people who did outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and for the promotion of world peace. Today, Barack Obama becomes the third sitting American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Elinor Ostrom becomes the first female laureate of the Prize in Economic Sciences. Other Nobel Prize trivia tidbits: the youngest laureate is Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 years old when he received the Nobel Prize in Physics along with his father, in 1915. Leonid Hurwicz was, at 90, the oldest recipient of a Nobel Prize — the 2007 Prize in Economic Sciences. Two Nobel laureates declined the honor: Jean-Paul Sartre, who on principle turned down all official honors, declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature; and Le Duc Tho, co-recipient, with Henry Kissinger, of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, declined the award saying that he could not accept a reward for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord, given the situation in Vietnam at the time. "I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends." — José Saramago |
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The last time a National Football League team member played without a helmet was during the 1940 NFL Championship Game. Chicago Bears' end Dick Plasman hardly needed to cover his head. His team beat the rival Washington Redskins, 73-0, in the most lopsided game in NFL history, on December 8, 1940. It was a home game for the 'Skins, who had beat the Bears, |
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Dec. 11 was the first day (night) of Hanukkah.
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On Dec. 13, 1642 - New Zealand: was sighted for the first time by a European, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman
----- On Dec. 14, 1972 - Apollo program: Eugene Cernan, as a member of Apollo 17, became the last man on the moon so far |
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On Dec. 15, 1791 - Bill of Rights: freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly and more became United States law when the states ratified Amendments I-X of the US Constitution.
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On December 17, 1975, Milla Jovovich was born...
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