This day in history

[Skylace]

[Skylace]

December 7th 1941-Pear Harbor was attacked.

This date is actually one of the first reports I remember doing in school.

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December 8th 1854-Pope Pius IX Defines Immaculate Conception as Dogma

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he was on the ball that Pius eh? It must have taken him ages to work that out!

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December 9th 1965 was the Kecksburg UFO Incident

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December 10th 1901 First Nobel Prizes Awarded

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December 10th 1792 King Louis XVI of France Tried for Treason

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I'd have happily chopped his head off just for looking such an arrogant twat!

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December 12-It's Kenya's Independence day. Get some Kenyan beer and celebrate!

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December 13th 1939-Battle of the River Plate (the first major battle of WWII)

[luke]

20th December

1649 Theatres were banned by Oliver Cromwell.

1805 Thomas Graham, the Scottish chemist who discovered the principle of dialysis, was born.

1910 The British General Election produced a tied vote, with the Liberal Party and the Tory Party each winning 272 seats.

1920 An English born comedian named Leslie Downes, who later changed his name to Bob Hope, became an American citizen on this day. He had lived in the United States since 1908 and became one of America's true ambassadors for show business and charity.

1926 Geoffrey Howe, British politician, was born.

1928 Harry Ramsden started his fish and chip restaurant in a hut near Bradford, West Yorkshire. It soon became the most famous fish and chip restaurant in the world.

1928 The England cricket team scored a record 636 against Australia in Sydney, including 251 scored by Walter Hammond. England won the Test match by eight wickets.

1954 James Hilton, the English author of the classic book 'Goodbye Mr Chips', died.

1955 Cardiff was officially named the capital of Wales.

1969 Rolf Harris had the Christmas No.1 of 1969 and the last No.1 of the 1960s with 'Two Little Boys'. The song stayed at No.1 for six weeks.

1979 The introduction of Britain's Housing Bill - forcing local councils to sell their houses to any tenants who wish to buy them.

1988 Animal rights terrorists fire bombed Harrod's department store in London.

1990 The Maerdy Colliery, employing 320 men, closed. It was the last remaining coal mine in the Rhondda Valley, an area which once produced 9million tonnes a year, and where more than 50,000 miners had worked in 54 pits.

1995 The Queen urged the Prince Charles and Princess Diana to seek an early divorce.

i wonder why cromwell banned theatres?!

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I think he banned theatres for the same reason he banned the celebration of Christmas - he was a dick. Many people say he was a great man, but that very much depends on how many of your ancestors he killed!

I'm surprised that Cardiff only became the capital of Wales in 1955 though - I suppose before then it was seen as just another part of England in effect.

[TheCaptain]

Winter Solstice. Time to get shagged and pissed out of your mind (I'm working on it).

But also:

1844 – The Rochdale Pioneers, usually considered the first successful cooperative enterprise, opened their store in Rochdale, England, and formed the basis for the modern cooperative movement.

1988 – Pan Am Flight 103: A terrorist bomb exploded and destroyed a Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270, including 11 on the ground.

Which just goes to show, there is good blokes, and there is wankers.

My compliments,

TheCaptain.

[eefanincan]

Dec. 21, 2007 - eefanincan wins a Christmas prize at work. Momentous occasion as she NEVER wins anything.