This Week In #History ... January 3 - 9th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Jan 3rd

1840 1st deep sea sounding
1872 1st patent list issued by U.S. Patent Office
1876 1st free kindergarten in U.S. opens in Florence, Mass.
1890 1st U.S. college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
1922 1st living person identified on a U.S. coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
1924 British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster, PA
1977 Apple Computers incorporated
1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century

Happy birthday to Johann Abraham Sixt, Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Douglas William Jerrold, Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, Clement Atlee, J. R. R. Tolkien, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Pola Negri, Johannes Hin, Ray Milland, Anna May Wong, John Sturges, Maxene Andrews, Jaroslav Hasek, Mara Corday, Thelma Schoonmaker, Shima Iwashita, Christina von Saltza, Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Beth Anderson, Ross Friedman, Mel Gibson, Jim Everett, Joseph Amor, Shannon Sturges, Michael Schumacher, Jason Marsden

Jan 4th

1519 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther and Karl von Miltitz)
1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
1885 Dr. W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)
1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world
1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
1959 Luna 1, Mechta, becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City)
1980 President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics
1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself president

Happy birthday to Amadeus VI, Franciscus Aguilon, Isaac Newton, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Wilhelm Beer, Louis Braille, Isaac Pitman, Edmund Rumpler, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Johanna Westerdijk, Sterling Holloway, Robert Parrish, Veikko Hakulinen, Iain Cuthbertson, Jon Appleton, Helmut Jahn, Brian Josephson, Jay Dee Maness, Peter Steele, Dave Foley, Julia Ormond, Deana Carter

Jan 5th

1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
1887 1st U.S. school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
1892 1st successful auroral photograph made
1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
1969 U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame

Happy birthday to Jacob Balthasar Schutz, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, DeWitt B Brace, Konrad Adenauer, Francesca Bertini, Laszlo Papp, Anton Ingolič, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jane Wyman, Wilbert Harrison, Robert Duvall, Umberto Eco, Juan Carlos I, Dany Saval, Felix Arons, Diane Keaton, Thom Mooney, Suzy Amis, Clancy Brown, Vinnie Jones, Ricky Paull Goldin, Marilyn Manson, Jason Bates, John Drew Nichols, Bradley Cooper, January Jones, Garette Patrick Ratliff

Jan 6th

1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1896 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1942 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper"
1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Happy birthday to Richard II, Joan of Arc, Jacques Montgolfier, Jedediah Strong Smith, Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Heinrich Schliemann, Herman Grimm, Ban Johnson, Carl Sandburg, Tom Mix, Alan M Bateman, Stanley Smith, Eric Frank Russell, Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, Joey Adams, Tom Brown, Alan Watts, Sylvia Syms, John Maynard Smith, Earl Kim, John DeLorean, E. L. Doctorow, Germaine Lefebvre, Doris Troy, Osvaldo Soriano, Bonnie Franklin, Grant Goodeve, Malcolm Young, Rowan Atkinson, John Singleton, Andrea Thompson, Mark O'Toole, Laura Berg, Danny Pintauro

Jan 7th
1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1782 1st U.S. commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1830 1st U.S. Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies
1933 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands
1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
1999 Senate begins to try President Clinton on lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewisnky case
2009 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine

Happy birthday to James Harrington, Millard Fillmore, Lucius C M Bakker, Charles Pierre Peguy, Rudolf Moser, Arnold Ridley, Alan Napier, Charles Addams, Shirley Ross, Francis De Wolff, Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, Vincent Gardenia, William Peter Blatty, Kenneth Henry, Charles Lamont Jenkins, Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, Leona Williams, Mike McGear, Kenny Loggins, John Christopher Parry, David Caruso, Katie Couric, Nicolas Cage, Doug E. Doug, Dustin Diamond

Jan 8th

1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established
1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ)
1925 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas
1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
2010 The parliament in Portugal approves a bill legalizing same-sex marriage

Happy birthday to Baltasar Gracian, Robert Schumann, Wilkie Collins, Henry James Byron, Fannie M Jackson, Gerard Leman, Emily Green Balch, Walter Bothe, Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Jacob C van Marken, William Hartnell, Richard Cromwell, Peter Taylor, Larry Storch, Ron Moody, Doreen Wilber, Jean-Marie Straub, Roy Kinnear, Nolan Miller, Yvette Mimieux, Graham Chapman, Stephen Hawking, Robbie Kreiger, Terry Sylvester, David Bowie, Mel Pritchard, Paul Dresher, Maria Pitillo, R Kelly, Sean Paul, Amber Benson, Gaby Hoffman

Jan 9th
1493 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus
1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army
1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone

Happy birthday to Thomas Warton, Adolf von Schlagintweit, Anton Aškerc, Carrie Chapman Catt, Hans Bethge, Chic Young, Richard M. Nixon, Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Derek Allhusen, Anita Louise, Lee Van Cleef, Kenneth Kelley, Jimmy Page, Rio Reiser, Kimberly Beck Hilton, Phil Lewis, Dave Matthews, Kim Mathers, A. J. McLean 

THIS WEEK IN #HISTORY ... Dec 20 - Dec 26

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Dec 20
1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50
1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
1938 Vladimir K Zworykin receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
1967 474,300 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam
1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
1999 Portugal returns Macau to China

Happy birthday to John Fletcher, Giovanni Battista Gagliano, Thomas Graham, John Geary, Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, Dan Leno, Harvey S Firestone, Charley Grapewin, Walter S. Adams, Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Susanne Langer, Robert Van de Graaff, Sidney Hook, Dick White, Audrey Totter, Nadine Gordimer, Charles Donald Adams, Gordon Getty, Dianne Arndt, Larry Willis, Robert L. Hayes, Robert Colomby, Patti Smith, Sergio Vastano, Jenny Agutter, Blanche Baker, Joanna Noelle Levesque.

Dec 21
1829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore
1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World
1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin)
1919 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1929 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas, TX)
1937 1st feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)
1968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
1991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)

Happy birthday to Johan III, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Couture, Lewis H. Morgan, Albert P. Terhune, Joseph Stalin, Ira S. Bowen, Guy Wilkerson, Oda Schaefer, Robin Irvine, Seicho Matsumoto, Heinrich Boll, Donald Regan, Gert Fredriksson, Joan Dickson, Ed Nelson, Jane Fonda, Wen Ho Lee, Frank Zappa, Albert Lee, Josh Mostel, Samuel L. Jackson, Carol Potter, Tina Brown, Betty Wright, Jane Kaczmarek, Ray Romano, Kiefer Sutherland, Mikhail Saakashvili, Michael Vitar

Dec 22
1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1910 U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota

Happy birthday to Luca della Robbia, Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, James Oglethorpe, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, William Ellery, Dugald Stewart, Benedict Augustin Morel, Justin M'Carthy, Frank Kellogg, Giacomo Puccini, Erich Schaeder, Herman Harrell Horne, Charles Vildrac, Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, H Keffer Hartline, Barbara Moore, Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Carney, Grote Reber, Andrew Fielding Huxley, Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, Peggy Castle, Hector Elizondo, Barry Jenkins, Marianne van Wijnkoop, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Paradis, Heather Donahue

Dec 23
1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
1867 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs
1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act

Happy birthday to Martin Opitz, Richard Arkwright, Frederik Augustus I, Aleksandr I P Romanov, Jean-Francois Champollion, Samuel Smiles, Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, John Cromwell, Eric Blore, Julien Carette, Maurice Denham, Gerald S O'Loughlin, Ruth Roman, Leonard Stern, Bob Barker, Harry Guardino, Paul Hornung, Esther Phillips, James Stacy, Karol Joseph Bobko, Elizabeth Hartman, Stephen Wallace, Harry Shearer, Tony Craig, Susan Lucci, John Callahan, Dave Murray, Eddie Vedder, Corey Haim, Estella Warren, Summer Altice

Dec 24
1818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
1893 Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
1936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, California
1942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany
1946 4th French republic established
1951 1st televised opera (Amahl and Night Visitor)
1997 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City

Happy birthday to French van Mieris, Rainieri De Calzabigi, Selam III, James Prescott Joule, Charles Hermite, Sissi, Henriette Georgia Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Louis Jouvet, Ruth Chatterton, Herbert D Riley, Fritz [Reuter] Leiber, Jr., Betty Ann Davies, Ad Reinhardt, Dorothy Hyson, Dave Bartholomew, Ava Gardner, Mary Higgins Clark, Tarja Halonen, Nicholas Meyer, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Mark Millar, Ryan Seacrest

Dec 25
1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
352 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
1818 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
1843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, New York City)
1848 New Haven Railroad opens
1914 Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits and Germans)
1922 Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
1950 Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey and smuggled back to Scotland
1983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
1997 For 1st time U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion

Happy birthday to Pius VI, Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, Clara Harlowe Barton, Alfred Kerr, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, W Starling Burgess, John Davidson, Conrad Hilton, Earle Foxe, Fred Hillebrand, Bert Bertram, Humphrey Bogart, Barton Maclane, J Edward Bromberg, Lew Grade, Cab Calloway, Marguerite Churchill, Nora Dunfee, Anwar Sadat, Noel Vandernotte, Chris Kenner, John Ashley, David Borden, Pete Brown, Noel Redding, Barbara Mandrell, Michael P. Anderson, Helena Christensen, Dido Armstrong

Dec 26
1620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
1860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1862 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service
1865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st U.S. coffee percolator
1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
1982 TIME's Man of the Year is a computer

Happy birthday to Charles E Biset, Anthony Ziesenis, Thomas Nelson, Dion Boucicault, Samuel E "Sam" van Beem, Johan F van Bemmelen, Friedrich Engel, Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Elton Mayo, Jean Galtier-Boissiere, Henry Miller, Mao Zedong, Una Mae Carlisle, Steve Allen, Alan King, Walter Leblanc, John Walsh, Chris Chambliss, Valeri Yuriyevich Sharov, Walter & Ullrich Diessner, David Sedaris, Lars Ulrich, Colleen Dion, Jared Leto

This Week In #History ... December 13 - 19

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Dec 13
1759 1st music store in America opens in Philadelphia
1816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1903 Wright brothers make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1920 League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague
1928 Clip-on tie designed
1950 James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman, issued
2000 Al Gore concedes presidential election, George W. Bush named president

Happy birthday to Henry IV, William Drummond, Heinrich Heine, Clark Mills, E Werner von Siemens, Mary Todd Lincoln, Emily Carr, Lambertus J van Apeldoorn, Marc Connelly, Harold Guinzburg, Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Talcott Parsons, John Piper, Van Heflin, Lillian Roth, George "Tiger" Haynes, Kenneth Millar, Dave Street, George P Schultz, Dick Van Dyke, Richard Darryl Zanuck, John Davidson, Ted Nugent, Thomas Vilsack, Robert Lindsay, Steve Forbert, Phillip Gregory Hubbard, Steve Buscemi, Karen Witter, Jamie Foxx, Amy Lee

Dec 14
1819 Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
1901 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)
1911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1915 Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
1967 DNA created in a test tube
1982 Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world

Happy birthday to Nostradamus, Henri IV the Bourbon, Thomas Cochrane, Maria Agata Szymanowska, Salvador Diaz Miron, Morihei Ueshiba, King George VI, James H Doolittle, Paul I, Henri Cochet, Guy Middleton, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Ota Adler, Elyse Knox, Shirley Jackson, Albertus Meintser, Sully Boyar, Raj Kapoor, George Furth, Leo N Wright, Barbara Leigh-Hunt,Robert Alan Ridley Parker, Hal Williams, Charlie Griffith, Ernest Davis, Frank Allen, Dee Wallace Stone, Vicki Michelle, Vijay Amritraj, Joe Toplyn, Catherine G Coleman, Noelle Beck, Vanessa Hudgens

Dec 15
1664 English colonizing Connecticut
1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
1925 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Mont Candiens 3, New York Americans 1
1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland

Happy birthday to Gregory King, Ludwig Ernst, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, Paul Painleve, James Schneider, Helena Rubinstein, Jose Maria Castro, Frank Vosper, Betty Smith, Maurice Wilkins, Ake Seyffarth, Bobby Todd, Bobby Todd, John Sladek, Geoffrey Davies, David Gwillim, Alex Cox, Helen Slater, Garrett Wang, Stuart Townsend, Tammy Melinda Pearman, Catherine Fox, Adam Brody

Dec 16
1897 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
1905 "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
1912 1st U.S. postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued
1953 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters)
1965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
1969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" posters begin appearing
1970 1st successful landing on Venus (U.S.S.R.)
1993 Shannen Doherty (Brenda) is fired from Beverly Hills 90210

Happy birthday to Catherine of Aragon, Ludwig van Beethoven (?), Jane Austen, John A. C. Oudemans, John Beatty, Edward E. Barnard, John Berry Hobbs, Harlan Sanders, Noel Coward, Hardie Albright, Piet Hein, Arthur C. Clarke, G Randall P D Garrett, Liv Ullman, Tony Hicks, Benny Andersson, Vincent Matthews, Billy Gibbons, Joslyn Y Hoyte-Smith, Jon Tenney, Melanie Smith, Heike Drechsler, Kristie Boogert

Dec 17
1791 New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine
1954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
1959 "On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph
1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
2004 President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director

Happy birthday to Gabrielle Chatelet, Ludwig van Beethoven (?), Johann Friedrich Schubert, John Kerr, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Fritz Volbach, Ford Madox Ford, Hu Shih, Hans [Henry] Kramers, David Butler, Joseph Heifitz, Willard Libby, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Patrice Wymore, Dave Dee, Marilyn Hassett, Jim Bonfanti, Carlton Barrett, Barry Livingston, Bill Pullman, Patrick Murray, Jeff Grayer, Tracy Byrd, Sean Patrick Thomas, Giovanni Ribisi, Milla Jovovich

Dec 18
1839 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in U.S., John Draper, New York City
1898 Automobile speed record set - 63 kph (39 mph)
1920 1st U.S. postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
1958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
1964 "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres
1972 U.S. begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
1996 Television industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system

Happy birthday to Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, Lyman Abbott, Karl Schroder, Hector Hugh Munro, Andres Randolf, Ty Cobb, Gladys Cooper, Kam Tong, Christopher Fry, Mona Barrie, Lynn Bari, Dario Mangiarotti, Ossie Davis, Peggy Cummins, Henrica M L "Wiesje" Backer, Keith Richards, Bobby Keyes, Carolyn Wood, Joni Flynn, Andrew S Thomas, Ray Liotta, Brad Pitt, Gianluca Pagliuca, Jason Williams, Katie Holmes, Christina Aguilera

Dec 19
1910 1st city ordinace requiring white and black residential areas (Baltimore)
1917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
1928 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army
1972 Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon landing series, returns to Earth
1988 NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
1998 House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment, charging President Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice

Happy birthday to Philip V, William Parry, Thomas Andrews, Mary Ashton Livermore, Henry Clay Frick, Albert A. Michelson, Carter G Woodson, Ralph Richardson, George D. Snell, Cyril Dean Darlington, Ragnild Hveger, Edmund Purdom, James Booth, Maurice White, Elaine Joyce, Alice Barrett, Daryl Hannah, Beatrice Dalle, Jessica Steen, Chuckii Booker, Kristy Swanson, Amy Locane, Amy Locane, Jake Gyllenhaal

This Week In #History ... December 6- 12

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Dec 6
1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas
1732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City
1768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
1865 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1877 Washington Post publishes 1st edition
1877 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)
1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa
1957 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up
1989 Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
1994 Orange County California files for bankruptcy

Happy birthday to Henry VI, Warren Hastings, William S. Hart, Lina Carstens, Gunnar Myrdal, Alan McGilvray, Eleanor Holm, Harold Horace Hopkins, Bruce Nauman, Helen Cornelius, Gina Hecht, Steven Wright, Judd Apatow, Peter Buck, Lindsay Price, Matt Maloney, Tim Cahill.

Dec 7
1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1912 Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1917 U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1926 Gas refrigerator patented
1932 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward)
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
1945 Microwave oven patented
1972 Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1992 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)

Happy birthday to Mary Stuart, Giovanni Bernini, Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, Allan Cunningham, Theodor Schwann, Leopold Kronecker, Warren Bardsley, Fay Bainter, Nora Nicholson, Daniel Jones, Eli Wallach, Victor Kermit Kiam II, Noam Chomsky, Ellen Burstyn, Harry Chapin, Susan Collins, Julie Halston, Priscilla Barnes, Hermann Maier, Jordi Burillo, Shiri Appleby, Angel Carter, Aaron Carter.

Dec 8
1813 Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1914 British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1923 German - U.S friendship treaty signed
1931 Coaxial cable patented
1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1956 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City
1980 Bravo network premieres on cable TV
1992 Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)

Happy birthday to Mary Queen of Scots, Francis I, Johann G von Zimmermann, Eli Whitney, Henry Timrod, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, William Crapo Durant, Jacques Hadamard, Paul Cavanagh, Irene Eisinger, Wilmer L Allison, Jr., Lee J. Cobb, Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Johnny Otis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, David Carradine, Nick Nolte, Jenny Linden, Jim Morrison, John Rubinstein, Sam Kinison, Kim Basinger, Billy Hufsey, Paul Rutherford, Teri Hatcher, Sinead O'Connor, Dominic Monaghan, Ian Somerhalder AAAAAAAND JEN FRIEL!!!

Dec 9
1212 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1931 Spain becomes a republic
1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1941 Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed
1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy
1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped
1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1994 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth

Happy birthday to Edwin Sandys, Adrian A. Metius, Gustavus II Adolphus, Carl W. Scheele, Charles Emile Waldteufel, Pjotr A. Kopotkin, Fritz Haber, Margaret Hamilton, Dalton Trumbo, Grace Murray Hopper, Noel Walton Bott, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Broderick Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Redd Foxx, Dina Merrill, John Cassavetes, Buck Henry, Judi Dench, Alan Ridout, Beau Bridges, Michael Dorn, John Malkovich, Nancy J. Currie, Joe Lando, Petr Nedved, Tre Cool, Fabrice Santoro.

Dec 10
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st)
1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of U.S. by airplane (84 days)
1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson
1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
1931 Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1984 1st planet outside our solar system discovered
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins

Happy birthday to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Melvil Dewey, Otto Neurath, Victor McLaglen, Ray Collins, Una Merkel, Jill Summers, Harold Gould, Carolyn Ashley Kizer, John Colicos, Dan Blocker, Tommy Kirk, Peter Michael Goetz, Frank Beard, Susan Dey, Susan Hallock Dey, Mark Aguirre, Nia Peeples, Brian Molko, Rusty LaRue, Meg White, Raven-Symoné, Summer Phoenix.

Dec 11
1688 King James II arrested
1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in U.S. (New England)
1816 Indiana becomes 19th state
1901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Newfoundland
1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City
1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs. NSW
1930 Bank of the United States opens in New York City
1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
1967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
1983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)

Happy birthday to David Brewster, Robert Koch, Ellen Key, Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, Paul Wegener, Max Born, Carlo Ponti, Anna van Beers, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Grace Paley, Betsy Blair, Stein Eriksen, Rita Moreno, Anne Heywood, Aldar Kovacsi, Karen Susman, Lynda Day George, Christine Onassis, Ken Wahl, Jermaine Jackson, Nikki Sixx, Justin Currie, Mos Def.

Dec 12
1098 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara Syria
1474 Isabella crowns herself queen of Castilie and Aragon
1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify U.S. constitution
1800 Washington D.C. established as capital of US
1858 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent and 20 cent)
1899 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
1913 "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1915 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
1916 Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
1961 Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany, Georgia
1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford
1996 Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
1997 Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin

Happy birthday to Ahmed III, Marie Louise, Gustave Flaubert, Matthias Hohner, Edvard Munch, Alfred Werner, Karen Morley, Eve Lister, Frank Sinatra, Heinrich Boll, Arthur R Hawkins, Og Mandino, Edward Koch, John Osborne, Connie Francis, Clive Bunker, Bill Nighy, Ricardo Luis Carreras, Sarah Douglas, Bruce Kulick, Scott D Vangen, Tracy Austin, Teresa Blake, Madchen Amick, Kirk Cameron, Mayim Winkelman Bialik, Bridget Hall, Jennifer Connelly.