November 26, 1942- "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC. 1778- Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui on the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii 1779- The first national thanksgiving holiday
3rd December. 1868 Gladstone became Prime Minister for the first time. He won office for three more terms. 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, died, aged 45 on the island of Samoa. 1926 In an episode as puzzling and intriguing as any in her many novels, Agatha Christie disappeared from her Surrey home and was discovered on the 14th December staying under an assumed name at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. She said she had no recollection of how she came to be in Yorkshire.
On this day in 2012 in the United States the World's Oldest Person Dies. The world's oldest living person, the 116 year old Besse Cooper from Georgia died. Cooper had been Guinness World Record certified as the oldest person, but after her death the title would move to 115 year old Dina Manfredini.
I've been looking up some interesting events for this date in history: On this day in 1991, Islamic militants in Lebanon release kidnapped American journalist Terry Anderson after 2,454 days in captivity. On this day in 1928, “Dapper Dan” Hogan, a St. Paul, Minnesota saloonkeeper and mob boss, is killed on this day in 1928 when someone plants a car bomb under the floorboards of his new Paige coupe. Doctors worked all day to save him–according to the Morning Tribune, “racketeers, police characters, and business men” queued up at the hospital to donate blood to their ailing friend–but Hogan slipped into a coma and died at around 9 p.m. His murder is still unsolved. On this day in 2009, 22-year-old American exchange student Amanda Knox is convicted of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007 in Perugia, Italy. Knox received a 26-year prison sentence, while her 25-year-old Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaelle Sollecito, who also was convicted in the slaying, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars. The sensational, high-profile case raised questions in the United Statesabout whether Knox, who always maintained her innocence, received a fair trial. Then, in October 2011, in a decision that made international headlines, an Italian court reversed the murder convictions of both Knox and Sollecito and they were freed from prison.
E.D Nixon and lead the Montgomery bus boycott. Also on this day Paul McCartney and Wings release Band on the Run.
6th December The Feast day of Nicholas, popularly known as Santa Claus. He is the patron saint of children. The name Santa Claus is a phonetic alteration from the German Sankt Niklaus and the Dutch Sinterklaas. 1975 The Balcombe Street siege in Central London was watched by millions on television. It ended when the four IRA gunmen, who had taken a couple hostage following a gun battle and chase, finally gave themselves up without a shot being fired. 1982 The 'Droppin Well' bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonated a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.
Today in History: 1421: Henry VI, who inherited the throne at the age of nine months, was born at Windsor. 1774: Austria introduced the first state education system. 1877: Thomas Alva Edison recited Mary Had A Little Lamb into his phonograph - and made the world’s first recording of the human voice. 1897: The world’s first motor cab fleet began operations in London. It went out of business in 1900 - its battery-powered taxis moved at only 8mph. 1921: Irish independence was granted for the 26 southern states which became known as the Irish Free State. Six counties which formed Ulster (Northern Ireland) remained as part of the UK. 1963: Christine Keeler, model involved in the Profumo scandal, was jailed for nine months for perjury. 1969: A free concert given by the Rolling Stones at Altamont, California, ended in tragedy when Hell’s Angels stabbed a man to death. 1991: Durham were admitted to first-class cricket, the first new county side for 70 years. 2012: A powerful typhoon that swept away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines killed around 350 people with nearly 400 missing. 2017: Ed Sheeran was named the biggest star on YouTube in the UK in 2017, topping the site’s most popular video lists for the year.
8th of December 1659 Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco. 1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ 1863 Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South 1914 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron 1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0 1941 US El Comandante Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
In 1965 A Charlie Brown Christmas debuts on CBS. The Nuremberg trials of NAZI doctors and officers involved in medical experiments on Jews and others begins on December. 9th
9th of December Alfred Tennyson's poem "Charge of the Light Brigade" is published in "The Examiner" On this day in 1854 1968 NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
