December 11th History, Trivia, and Fun Facts |
December 11th History Highlights |
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December 11th Babies… |
Babies born today were probably conceived on Saint Patrick’s Day. |
December 11th is… |
Holiday Food Drive for Needy Animals Day KaleidoscopeDay National APP day National Have a Bagel Day |
December 11th Birthday Quotes |
“It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.” “Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose falsehood as his PRINCIPLE.” “It needs to be said and heard: it’s OK to be who you are. My mom taught me to live by the three p’s: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.” “All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.” “I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.” |
December 11th Birthdays |
1725 – George Mason, American politician (died in 1792) 1781 – David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of the Kaleidoscope 1838 – John Labatt, Canadian brewer (died in 1915) 1882 – Fiorello La Guardia, New York politician (died in 1947) 1916 – Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and bandleader (died in 1989) 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (died in 2008) 1927 – John Buscema, American comic book artist (died in 2002) 1931 – Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer 1939 – Tom Hayden, American politician (died in 2016) 1940 – David Gates, American singer-songwriter 1940 – Donna Mills, American actress 1941 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter (died in 1991) 1943 – John Kerry, American politician 1944 – Lynda Day George, American actress 1944 – Brenda Lee, American singer-songwriter 1949 – Teri Garr, American actress 1953 – Bess Armstrong, American actress 1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer-songwriter, Jackson 5 1957 – Peter Bagge, American author, and illustrator 1958 – Nikki Sixx (Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr.), American bass player 1967 – Mo’Nique (Monique Angela Hicks), American comedian 1973 – Mos Def, American rapper 1974 – Rey Mysterio, American wrestler 1985 – Raven-Symoné, American actress 1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, and singer |
December 11th History |
Babies born today were probably conceived on Saint Patrick’s Day. 1769 – Venetian Blinds were patented in London by Edward Bevan in England. 1816 – Indiana became the 19th US state. 1844 – Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic (Nitrous Oxide) for the dental procedure, by Dr. John M. Riggs. 1882 – Boston’s Bijou Theater had its first performance, the first American playhouse lit with electricity. 1911 – In Stockholm, Sweden, Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel prize. 1936 – Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. 1946 – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was founded. 1947 – The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American Federation of Labor. 1961 – #1 Hit December 11, 1961 – December 17, 1961: The Marvelettes – Please Mr. Postman 1964 – Singer Sam Cooke was shot and killed by the motel manager of the Hacienda Motel, where he was staying. 1967 – The Concorde, a British/French venture; the world’s first supersonic airliner, was unveiled in Toulouse, France. 1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, was filmed in Wembley, London. 1972 – Apollo XVII astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed on the moon for the final Apollo mission. 1980 – Hawaii-based Magnum, P.I. premiered on CBS. 1981 – Muhammad Ali fought his 61st and final fight to Trevor Berbick. 1982 – #1 Hit December 11, 1982 – December 17, 1982: Toni Basil – Mickey 1985 – The Unabomber killed his first victim, Hugh Scrutton who was killed in his computer store when a mailed package exploded, in Sacramento, California. 1987 – Throw Momma From the Train, Empire of the Sun, and Wall Street debuted in theaters. 1991 – Hook was released in theaters. 1992 – The Muppet Christmas Carol and A Few Good Men were released in theaters. 1993 – #1 Hit December 11, 1993 – December 24, 1993: Janet Jackson – Again 1997 – More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth’s global-warming “greenhouse gases.” (The Kyoto Protocol) 2004 – #1 Hit December 11, 2004 – December 31, 2005: Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell – Drop It Like It’s Hot 2008 – Bernie Madoff was arrested for bilking clients for at least hundreds of millions, and probably billions, of dollars. 2009 – The Lovely Bones was released in theaters. 2010 – #1 Hit December 11, 2010 – December 17, 2010: Pink – Raise Your Glass 2010 – The first customer delivery of a Nissan Leaf (an all-electric vehicle) was made at by a dealer at Petaluma, California. |
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts |
Biometric data (like fingerprints) are not legally protected in the U.S. under the Fifth Amendment and, unlike a passcode, can be compelled from a defendant. When people agree with you, “you’re right”. But when they don’t, “that’s just your opinion”. I’m smart enough to wait until my wife is finally ready before putting on my winter coat, but not smart enough to keep my mouth shut about doing it. Cat Stevens – Real Name: Stephen Georgiou The United States rents Guantanamo Bay from Cuba for $4085 a month, but Cuba has only cashed one check in the past 55 years – by accident. The Capital of Bahrain is Manama “You can’t handle the truth!” – Col. Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson) in A Few Good Men, 1992 “There’s no crying in baseball!” – Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) #moviequotes Hours before being murdered by Jack the Ripper, Catherine Eddowes was taken into police custody after being found drunk, when prompted for her name, she gave the police a fake name, “Mary Kelly” A woman named Mary Kelly was the next victim. #clue Vera Lynn – Real Name: Vera Welch Four out of six Marlboro Men died died of smoking-related diseases, thus earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname “Cowboy killers”. “Anything is possible. It is night on planet earth and I’m alive. And someday I’ll be dead. Someday I’ll just be bones in a box, but right now, I’m not. And anything is possible.” – Jeff in SubUrbia The Scary Statistic: Legal Execution odds: 1-in-58,618 |
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