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December 30th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 30th History Highlights1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois killed at least 605 people.1916 – Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was found in a Moscow […]

December 29th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 29th History Highlights1851 – The first American YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) opened in Boston, Massachusetts.1890 – The US Cavalry killed 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.1916 – James Joyce’s book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was publishedIf

December 28th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 28th History Highlights1895 – Louis and Auguste Lumiere screened a series of short movie scenes from everyday French life (and charged admission for the viewing) at the Grand Cafe in Paris.1958 – Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants in the first (ever) National Football League sudden-death overtime

December 27th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 27th History Highlights1927 – Kern and Hammerstein’s musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.1945 – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded with an agreement by 29 nations.1947 – The Howdy Doody TV show premiered

December 26th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 26th History Highlights1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announced the isolation of radium.1908 – Jack Johnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion, after defeating Tommy Burns in Australia.1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union formally dissolved the Soviet Union.If you were born on December 26th,You

December 25th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 25th History Highlights800 – The coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.1066 – William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy was crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.1758 – Halley’s Comet was sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, per Edmund Halley’s prediction.1776 – George Washington crossed the

December 23rd History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 23rd History Highlights1913 – The Federal Reserve Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.1947 – The transistor was demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.1970 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York topped out at 1,368

December 19th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 19th History Highlights1776 – Thomas Paine published one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled The American Crisis.1998 – President Bill Clinton was impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.1917 – The first

December 18th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 18th History Highlights1958 – Project SCORE, the world’s first communications satellite, was launched.1912 – Piltdown Man’s skull was found in a gravel pit in Sussex, England. At first, it was believed to be the ‘missing link’ between man and early primates but was later discovered to be a

December 17th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 17th History Highlights1843 – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published.1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closed its study of UFOs.2101 – The

December 16th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 16th History Highlights1773 – The Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawk Indians, dumped hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.1944 – The Battle of the Bulge1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain

December 15th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 15th History Highlights1791 – The Bill of Rights was added to the United States Constitution.1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.1973 – The American Psychiatric Association voted 13 to 0 to remove

 December 14th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 14th History Highlights1287 – St. Lucia’s flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapsed, killing over 50,000 people.1780 – Alexander Hamilton married Elizabeth Schuyler at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York. #hamilton1900 – Max Planck presented a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. (Quantum Mechanics)1962

December 13th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 13th History Highlights1294 – Saint Celestine V resigned from the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.1962 – NASA launched Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in Earth orbit.1972 – Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt began the third

 December 12th History, Trivia, and Fun FactsDecember 12th History Highlights1787 – Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the United States Constitution.1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sent the first Atlantic wireless (radio) transmission (three beeps) from Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada.1913 – Originally stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris on August 11, 1911: Leonardo da