This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

December 17

1777
France recognized American independence.

1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a
heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

1944
The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy
of holding Japanese-Americans in internment
camps, allowing "evacuees" to return home.

1969
The U.S. Air Force ended its "Project Blue Book"
and concluded that there was no evidence of
extraterrestrial activity behind UFO sightings.

1992
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
signed by U.S., Canada , and Mexico .


This Day in History: December 17 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on December 17

Sir Humphry Davy
chemist, physicist (1778)

W.L. Mackenzie King
political leader (1874)

Arthur Fiedler
conductor (1894)

Sylvia Ashton-Warner
novelist and educator (1905)

William L. Safire
journalist (1929)

Milla Jovovich
model, actor, and singer (1975)

December 17 Birthdays: John Greenleaf Whittier | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

December 18

1737
Violin maker Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona,
Italy.

1787
New Jersey became the third state to ratify the
U.S. Constitution .

1865
Slavery was abolished with the ratification of the
13th Amendment to the Constitution.

1892
Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" premiered
at St. Petersburg's Maryinksy Theatre.

1944
The Supreme Court upheld the wartime
internment of Japanese-Americans .

1956
Japan was admitted to the United Nations .

1957
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in
Pennsylvania became the first civilian nuclear
facility to generate electricity in the United
States.

1969
The British Parliament abolished the death
penalty for murder.

2000
George W. Bush received 271 votes in the
delayed Electoral College balloting.
This Day in History: December 18 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on December 18

Paul Klee
artist (1879)

Ty Cobb
baseball player (1886)

Edwin Armstrong
engineer and radio inventor (1890)

Fletcher Henderson
jazz composer and pianist (1897)

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
air force general (1912)

Willy Brandt
political leader (1913)

Betty Grable
actress (1916)

Ossie Davis
actor, director, screenwriter (1917)

Ramsey Clark
attorney general (1927)

Keith Richards
musician, songwriter (1943)

Ray Liotta
actor (1954)

Brad Pitt
actor (1963)

DMX
rapper (1970)

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
tennis player (1971)

Katie Holmes
actor (1978)

Christina Aguilera
singer (1980)

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[Dinesh jain]

December 19

1732
Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor
Richard's Almanac .

1776
Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis
essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times
that try men's souls."

1843
Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol."

1946
War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh
attacked the French.

1972
Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending
the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.

1984
Britain and China signed an accord returning
Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1,
1997.

1998
President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts
by the House of Representatives.

2003
Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his
country would discontinue development of
weapons of mass destruction.

This Day in History: December 19 | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on December 19

Ford Frick
sportswriter and radio announcer (1894)

Sir Ralph Richardson
actor (1902)

Leonid Brezhnev
political leader (1906)

Jean Genet
playwright (1910)

Edith Piaf
cabaret singer (1915)

Doug Harvey
hockey player (1924)

Cicely Tyson
actress (1933)

Alberto Tomba
alpine skier (1966)

Alyssa Milano
actor (1972)

Jake Gyllenhaal
actor (1980)

December 19 Birthdays: Richard Leakey | Infoplease.com

 

[Dinesh jain]

December 20

1790
Samuel Slater built the nation's first cotton mill
in Pawtucket, R.I.p

1803
The United States purchased the Louisiana
territory from France for $15 million.

1860
South Carolina became the first state to secede
from the Union.

1968
Author John Steinbeck died at age 66.

1989
The United States invaded Panama and installed
a new government but failed to capture General
Manuel Antonio Noriega.

1996
Astronomer Carl Sagan died at age 62.

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on December 20

Thomas Graham
chemist (1805)

Harvey Samuel Firestone
industrialist (1868)

Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
athlete (1886)

Susanne K. Langer
philosopher (1895)

Sidney Hook
philosopher (1902)

Jenny Agutter
actor (1952)

JoJo
actor, singer (1990)

 

[Dinesh jain]

December 21

1620
The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts .
1891
The first basketball game, invented at Springfield
College in Massachusetts by James E. Naismith,
was played.

1898
Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.

1913
The first crossword puzzle was printed in the
New York World

1937
Disney's Snow White, the first feature length
color and sound cartoon, premiered.

1970
Elvis Presley met with president Richard Nixon in
the White House.

1988
A terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am
Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270
people.

1991
Eleven of the former Soviet republics form the
Commonwealth of Independent States .

1995
Palestinians took over the control of the city of
Bethlehem .

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on December 21

Henrietta Szold
Zionist leader (1860)

Michael Tilson Thomas
conductor, composer, and pianist (1944)