LongRider Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 11 December... is the 345th day of the year 2023. There are 20 days remaining until the end of this year. 1934 Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time. 1931 The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 12 December... is the 346th day of the year 2023. There are 19 days remaining until the end of this year. 1950 Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services. 1982 Women’s peace protest at Greenham Common – 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km perimeter fence. Amazing protest "On the 5th September 1981, the Welsh group “Women for Life on Earth” arrived on Greenham Common, Berkshire, England. They marched from Cardiff with the intention of challenging, by debate, the decision to site 96 Cruise nuclear missiles there. On arrival they delivered a letter to the Base Commander which among other things stated ‘We fear for the future of all our children and for the future of the living world which is the basis of all life’..."The conduct and integrity of the protest mounted by the Women’s Peace Camp was instrumental in the decision to remove the Cruise Missiles from Greenham Common." Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (greenhamwpc.org.uk) kissdbyfire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 13, 2023 Author Share Posted December 13, 2023 13 December... is the 317th day of the year 2023. There are 48 days remaining until the end of this year. 1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators. 1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans. The two-acre (8,100 m2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing as a result of their service in Vietnam and South East Asia during the war. The names on the Wall, originally numbering 57,939 when it was dedicated in 1982, are listed in the chronological order of the dates of casualty.[8] Additional names have been added throughout the years since: as of May 2018 there are 58,320 names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 14, 2023 Author Share Posted December 14, 2023 (edited) 14 December... is the 348th day of the year 2023. There are 17 days remaining until the end of this year. 1958 The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic. A pole of inaccessibility with respect to a geographical criterion of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach according to that criterion. Often it refers to the most distant point from the coastline, implying a maximum degree of continentality or oceanity. The southern pole of inaccessibility is the point on the Antarctic continent most distant from the Southern Ocean. A variety of coordinate locations have been given for this pole. The discrepancies are due to the question of whether the "coast" is measured to the grounding line or to the edges of ice shelves, the difficulty of determining the location of the "solid" coastline, the movement of ice sheets and improvements in the accuracy of survey data over the years, as well as possible topographical errors. Pole of inaccessibility - Wikipedia 2008 President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad. Edited December 14, 2023 by LongRider Bironic and DireWolfSpirit 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 15 December... is the 349th day of the year 2023. There are 16 days remaining until the end of this year. 1965 Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7. 2000 The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 (edited) 16 December... is the 350th day of the year 2023. There are 15 days remaining until the end of this year. 1707 Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. 1811 The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These four so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today’s heartland states of the United States. 1775 Jane Austen, English writer (d. 1817) 1917 Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer (d. 2008) 1928 Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982) Edited December 16, 2023 by LongRider kissdbyfire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 17 December... is the 351st day of the year 2023. There are 14 days remaining until the end of this year. 1903 The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane. 1947 First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. 2003 SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 18, 2023 Author Share Posted December 18, 2023 18 December... is the 352nd day of the year 2023. There are 13 days remaining until the end of this year. 1892 premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg. 1898 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mi/h in a Jeantaud electric car. 1865 On this day by proclamation of the U.S. secretary of state, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, officially entered into force, having been ratified by the requisite states on December 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 19 December... is the 353rd day of the year 2023. There are 12 days remaining until the end of this year. 1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky. kissdbyfire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 20th December 1401 a.d. (803 a. h.) ... Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane sat together for the historic interview which Ibn Khaldun includes an account in his Autobiography. LongRider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 20, 2023 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 20 December... is the 354th day of the year 2023. There are 11 days remaining until the end of this year. 1968 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California. 2004 A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history. 2007 The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 21, 2023 Author Share Posted December 21, 2023 21 December... is the 355th day of the year 2023. There are 10 days remaining until the end of this year. It is the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. 1844 The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. 1913 Arthur Wynne’s “word-cross”, the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World. 2012 The music video for South Korean singer PSY's humorous pop song Gangnam Style became the first video on YouTube to garner one billion views. Can't say I've ever seen the original Gangman Style vid, but this parody of it, which is about Mitt Romney's 2012 run for the president, is the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 22 December... is the 356th day of the year 2023. There are 9 days remaining until the end of this year. 1808 Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano). 1851 The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India. 1956 Colo, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity, is born at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio. 1989 Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 23, 2023 Author Share Posted December 23, 2023 23 December... is the 357th day of the year 2023. There are 8 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. 1938 Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa. 1947 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. 1972 The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 24, 2023 Author Share Posted December 24, 2023 24 December... is the 358th day of the year 2023. There are 7 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. 1826 The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning. The eggnog riot, sometimes known as the grog mutiny, was a riot that took place at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, on 24–25 December 1826. It was caused by a drunken Christmas party in the north barracks of the academy. Two days prior to the incident, a large quantity of whiskey was smuggled into the academy to make eggnog for the party, giving the riot its name. The riot eventually involved more than one-third of the cadets by the time it ceased on Christmas morning. A subsequent investigation by academy officials resulted in the implication of 70 cadets and the court-martialing of 20 of them along with one enlisted soldier. Among the participants in the riot – though he was not court-martialed – was future Confederate States President Jefferson Davis. 1906 Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. 1955 NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 25 December...is the 359th day of the year 2023. There are 6 days remaining until the end of this year. 1968 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers. 1990 The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web. 2004 Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 26 December... is the 360th day of the year 2023. There are 5 days remaining until the end of this year. 1846 Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism. 1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium. 1997 The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore. 2003 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam. 2004 A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train. 2006 A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, killing two people and causing severe communication disruptions in southeast Asia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 27 December... is the 361st day of the year 2023. There are 4 days remaining until the end of this year. 1831 Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution. 1945 The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations. 1966 The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The link goes to photos of this fascinating cave. Cave of Swallows - Search Images (bing.com) kissdbyfire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 28, 2023 Author Share Posted December 28, 2023 28 December...is the 362nd day of the year 2023. There are 3 days remaining until the end of this year. 1612 Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. 1832 John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. 1895 The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema. kissdbyfire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted December 29, 2023 Author Share Posted December 29, 2023 29 December... is the 363rd day of the year 2023. There are 2 days remaining until the end of this year. 1851 The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts. 1959 Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology. 2003 The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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