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On November 26, 1789, U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States...
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On November 28, 1973, The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew...
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On November 28, 1977, Larry Bird was introduced as "College Basketball's Secret Weapon" with a cover story in Sports Illustrated...
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On November 29, 1947, The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews...
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i was gona say that the name was microsoft was invented today by bill gates. i love this thread. keep em coming uncle phil!
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On November 30, 1897, Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition...
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On December 1, 1835, Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales...
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On December 2, 1954, the U.S. Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The censure was related to McCarthy's controversial investigation of suspected communists in the U.S. government, military and civilian society...
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On December 3, 1964, police arrested about 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley. The arrest took place one day after the students staged a massive sit-in inside an administration building...
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On December 4, 1943, baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players...
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1933 - Prohibition came to an end when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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On December 6, 1884, construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years...
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On December 7, 1982, Charlie Brooks Jr., a convicted murderer, became the first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, TX...
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*note to self: start thread about guillotine and lack of use in the US*
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December 7th 1941, Pear Harbor is attacked by surprise by Japanese Imperial forces, bringing war to the United States.
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On December 8, 1982, Norman D. Mayer demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monument hostage. He threatened to blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. 10 hours later he was shot to death by police...
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On December 9, 1926, the United States Golf Association legalized the use of steel-shafted golf clubs...
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On December 10, 19XX, Uncle Phil jumped kicking and screaming into the new world...
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On December 11, 1844, Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic...
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On December 12, 1899, George Grant patented the wooden golf tee...
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1769: Dartmouth College (pictured) in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire, USA was established by a Royal Charter from British King George III and became the last university founded in the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution. |
On December 14, 1503, physician, astrologer and clairvoyant Nostradamus was born at St. Remy, Provence, France...
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On December 15, 1964, Canada's House of Commons approved a newly designed flag thereby dropping the Canadian "Red Ensign" flag...
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On December 16, 1850, the first immigrant ship, the Charlotte Jane, arrived at Lyttleton, New Zealand...
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On December 17, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to approve RCA’s color television specifications...
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On December 18, 1917,the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress...
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On December 19, 1973, Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the "Tonight Show..."
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On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union...
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On December 21, 1978, police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing...
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On December 22, 1894, the United States Golf Association was formed in New York City...
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On December 23, 1968, eighty-two crewmembers of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured...
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On December 24, 1906, Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, MA.
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On December 25, 1946, W.C. Fields died at the age of 66...
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On December 26, 1947, heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The severe weather was blamed for about 80 deaths...
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On December 27, 1831, Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution...
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On December 28, 1956, after five years on television, the last "Ding Dong School" was aired on NBC-TV...
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On December 29, 1934, the first regular-season, college basketball game was played at Madison Square Garden in New York City. New York University defeated Notre Dame 25-18...
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On December 30, 1961, Jack Nicklaus lost his first attempt at pro golf to Gary Player in an exhibition match in Miami, FL...
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On December 31, 1929, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time...
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On January 1, 0404, the last gladiator competition was held in Rome...
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