November 27, 1971: The Soviet Mars 2 orbiter launches a descent module that malfunctions and crashes on the planet’s surface, making broken Soviet trash the first man-made objects on Mars.
November 28, 1908: The Marianna Mine Explosion kills 154 miners in Pennsylvania. Only one person inside the mine at the time of the disaster survived.
November 29, 1864: The Sand Creek Massacre
The U.S Army kills somewhere between 70 and 500 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in their village in the Colorado Territory. Most of the dead are women and children, whose bodies are mutilated and carved up for souvenirs. No one is held accountable.
November 30, 1835: Mark Twain is born.
November 30, 1954: In Oak Grove, Alabama, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
November 30, 1982: Michael Jackson’s sixth solo studio album, Thriller is released worldwide. It becomes, and still remains today, the best-selling record album in history.
December 1, 1974: TWA Flight 514crashes outside of Dulles Airport killing all 92 on board.
December 1, 1952: The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery. She becomes an instant celebrity.
December 2, 1984: Bhopal.
December 3, 1800: In the United States presidential election of 1800 the Electoral College casts votes for President and Vice President that results in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The House of Representatives then holds a tie-breaking contingent election. The first 35 ballots also tie, but the 36th gives the Presidency to Jefferson.
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December 3, 1775: The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
December 3, 1927: Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
December 3, 1964: Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents’ decision to forbid protests on UC property.
December 3, 1990: Mary Robinson is sworn in as President of Ireland, becoming the first woman to hold the role.
December 3, 1992: A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world’s first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
December 5, 1952: The “Great Smog”: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
December 6, 1912: The Nefertiti Bust is discovered. Owing to the work, Nefertiti has become one of the most famous women of the ancient world, and an icon of feminine beauty.
December 6, 1884: The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
December 7, 1987: Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
December 7th, 1941. A date that will live in infamy.
Regards,
Shodan
**December 7, 1703 **: The Great Storm of 1703 strikes England. This may be the worst storm ever to hit that country. Estimates of the dead go as high as 15,000.
December 8, 1966: The SS Heraklion passenger ferry sinks in the Aegean Sea killing over 200.
December 8, 1980: Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman, in front of The Dakota in New York City.
December 8, 1941: Great Britain and the British Empire declared war on the Imperial Government of Japan. The House of Commons gave its approval, for some reason, by passing a Motion to Adjourn without objection.
December 8, 1941: The U.S.A. declared war on the Imperial Government of Japan. The U.S. resolution received 470 Aye votes in the Houses of Congress and a single dissent, from Jeannette Rankin, the first female Congressperson, who said “As a woman, I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.”
December 8, 1941: Eight other countries declared war on the Imperial Government of Japan.
December 8, 1941: The Supreme Court decided, with Black and Douglas dissenting, in the case of Raymond Lisenba v. The People of the State of California to deny the petitioner a writ of habeas corpus based on the methods used by law enforcement officials to procure his confession to murder…