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On This Day in History

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Tully Mars, Aug 1, 2011.

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  1. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    pasco county
    On December 10, 1953, Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 10, 2011
    #301
  2. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    December 10, 2011:

    CaptainBob replaced his hard drive in his 5 year old (late 2006) iMac 20" computer.
     
    CaptainBob, Dec 10, 2011
    #302
  3. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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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...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 11, 2011
    #303
  4. paddyjoe

    paddyjoe curious

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    On December 11, 1816, Indiana became the 19th state in the U.S. of A.
     
    paddyjoe, Dec 11, 2011
    #304
  5. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    December 12, 1894:

    DEATH OF A PRIME MINISTER
    Windsor England - Sir John Thompson 1845-1894 dies at Windsor Castle of a heart attack a few minutes after being sworn in by Queen Victoria as a member of the Privy Council; his body is brought home by a British warship. Canada's 4th Prime Minister, since Dec. 5, 1892, he was a former Premier of Nova Scotia, brought to Ottawa by John A. Macdonald to serve as Justice Minister - 'The great discovery of my life,' said John A., 'was my discovery of Thompson.' Thompson was replaced by Mackenzie Bowell.
     
    CaptainBob, Dec 12, 2011
    #305
  6. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    pasco county
    Also on December 12, 1863, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was born. His most known work is "The Scream..."
     
    uncle phil, Dec 12, 2011
    #306
  7. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

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    Lindy, Dec 12, 2011
    #307
  8. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

    Location:
    Yucatan, Mexico
    On December 13th in 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. Martial law formally ended in 1983.
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 13, 2011
    #308
  9. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    Also on December 13, 1636, the United States National Guard was created when militia regiments were organized by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 13, 2011
    #309
  10. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

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    On December 14th in 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967.
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 14, 2011
    #310
  11. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    Also on December 14, 1945, Josef Kramer, known as "the beast of Belsen," and 10 others were executed in Hamelin for the crimes they committed at the Belsen and Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 14, 2011
    #311
  12. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

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    Yucatan, Mexico
    On this day in 2011 I tossed and turned in bed until 0130, then said "fuck it" and made coffee.



    Also on December 15th in 1916, the French defeated the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 15, 2011
    #312
  13. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    Also on December 15, 1877, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 15, 2011
    #313
  14. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

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    Yucatan, Mexico
    On December 16th in 1950, President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight “Communist imperialism.”
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 16, 2011
    #314
  15. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    pasco county
    Also on December 16, 1773, nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 16, 2011
    #315
  16. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    December 16. 1992:

    SPAN OF GREEN CABLES ??
    Charlottetown PEI - Ottawa, New Brunswick and PEI sign deal to build 13 km $800 m bridge to mainland; Ottawa to supply $60 m for roads and redevelop Borden, Cape Tormentine; the Confederation Bridge does not yet have a name.
     
    CaptainBob, Dec 16, 2011
    #316
  17. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

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    On December 17th in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright took the first successful man-powered airplane flights, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 17, 2011
    #317
  18. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    Also on December 17, 1944, the U. S. Army announced the end of its policy of excluding Japanese-Americans from the West Coast which ensured that Japanese-Americans were released from detention camps...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 17, 2011
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  19. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

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    Yucatan, Mexico
    On December 18th in 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went online.
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 18, 2011
    #319
  20. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    Also on December 18, 1969, Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 18, 2011
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