December 6, 2010
December Dates & Facts
By Eloise GrahamSome important and interesting facts from December history:
1814 – (December 24) Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812.
1878 – (December 1) The first White House telephone installed
1881 – Sherlock Holmes first appears in print “A Study In Scarlet”
1903 – (December 17) The Wright brothers made the first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as their biplane Wright Flyer remained in the air for 12 seconds covering 120 feet.
1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduced the continuous moving assembly line on December 1. Ford’s new assembly line could produce a complete car every two-and-a-half minutes.
1913 – The first drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh) [Ed. Note: Wonder what the price was!]
1917- Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town.
1918 – (December 4) President Woodrow Wilson sails in USS George Washington for Paris Peace Conference.
1921 – The Detroit Steam Motors Corporation announced the Trask steam car, a favorite project of automobile distributor O.C. Trask.
1921- (December 1) The first US helium-filled dirigible makes first flight.
1929 – BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe on this day in history.
1930 – (December1) Ruth Nichols becomes first woman pilot to cross the continent.
1935- (December 1) Woody Allen (Allen Konigsberg) was born.
1941 – (December 8th) US declares war on Japan.
1965 – Launch of Gemini 7 piloted by CDR James A. Lovell, USN. This flight consisted of 206 orbits at an altitude of 327 km and lasted 13 days and 18 hours. Recovery by HS-11 helicopters from USS Wasp
1971- John and Yoko release “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”
1986 – Paul McCartney releases “Only Love Remains”
1987 – Digging begins to link England and France under the English Channel
1990 – The engineers digging a rail tunnel [see 1987] under the English Channel link up between England and France and the island of Britain is connected with the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age.
1990 – Iraq accepts Bush’s offer for talks.
1991 – (December 1) Ukranian people vote for independence.
1991- (December 25) The hammer & sickle red flag that symbolized 75 years of Soviet communism was lowered for the last time and replaced by 15 flags of 15 newly independent republics.
Filed Under: History
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