Check it out, Historical events in First December over
years ago :
- 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
- 1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris.
- 1566 - Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
- 1626 - Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical gov of Jerusalem, driven out
- 1640 - Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
- 1742 - Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
- 1783 - Jacques Charles & Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris
- 1821 - Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence fromSpain
- 1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes his 1st book of fairy tales
- 1852 - Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
- 1878 - 1st White House telephone installed
- 1900 - Portifiro Diaz is inaugurated for his 6th consecutive term as President of Mexico
- 1915 - The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington
- 1918 - Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown
- 1918 - Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
- 1918 - Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
- 1919 - Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
- 1921 - 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
- 1924 - Calles becomes president of Mexico
- 1933 - Rudolf Hess & Earnest Rohm become a minister in Hitler government
- 1934 - Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, used by Stalin as the excuse to begin the Great Purge of 1934-38.
- 1936 - EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
- 1939 - SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
- 1941 - Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
- 1943 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
- 1948 - Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine
- 1954 - Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
- 1959 - 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
- 1959 - 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)
- 1959 - The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
- 1960 - Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany for accusation of attempted arson.
- 1961 - The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
- 1963 - Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
- 1964 - Martin Lurther King speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
- 1965 - South Africa government says children of white fathers are white
- 1966 - Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
- 1967 - Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
- 1968 - Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan presidential candidate
- 1970 - Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
- 1970 - Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
- 1971 - Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
- 1973 - Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
- 1973 - Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
- 1975 - Kuwait and Gulf and BP agree on terms of nationalization
- 1976 - Angola admitted to UN
- 1976 - Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president
- 1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his album "Thriller"
- 1984 - France performs nuclear test
- 1985 - STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1988 - Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
- 1988 - Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
- 1989 - USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at theVatican
- 1990 - Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
- 1991 - AIDS awareness day
- 1991 - Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
- 1991 - US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
- 1991 - Ukrainian people vote for independence
- 1994 - Cindy Crawford & Richard Gere announce they are seperating
- 1994 - Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
- 1998 - Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.
- 2008 - The US economy has been in recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research announces today
- 2012 - Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico
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