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November December January December,
originally
the tenth
month, takes
its name from
the Latin
word decem,
which means “ten.” The
month is traditionally
a time of
gift-bearing
due to the
Christmas
holidays,
St. Nicholas
Day, Hanukkah,
and Kwanzaa.
Hearing
Impaired Month |
1 |
World Aids Day FACTOID: Since
1988, 1st December
has been a day bringing
messages of compassion,
hope, solidarity
and understanding
about AIDS to every
country in the world,
North and South,
East and West. Rosa Parks (b. 2/14/1913 d. 10/24/2005), a black seamstress of Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested because she refused to give up her front section bus seat to a white man, 1955. www.rosaparks.org |
2 |
Monroe
Doctrine presented
by President
James Monroe,
1823. First atom split, 1942. |
3 |
Gilbert
Stuart,
American painter
of famous George
Washington portrait,
born 1755. FACTOID: Paintings
were popular
since photography was
not invented
yet. Illinois became the 21st state (settled in 1720), 1818. |
4 |
Space
Milestone - US International space
station launched,
1977. NASA announces plans to build a base on the Moon; construction scheduled to begin in 2020 when astronauts will return to the moon, 2008. |
5 |
Walt
Disney,
Animator, born
1901. Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837), first native U.S. president, born 1782. |
6 |
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7 |
Pearl
Harbor Day - Pacific War
started by Japan's
bombing of Pearl
Harbor, 1941. First concert by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra presented 1842. Delaware, became the first state (settled in 1638), 1787. FACTOID: First of the original thirteen colonies. |
8 |
James
Thurber,
author of Greatest
Man in the World,
born 1894. Eli Whitney, who invented Cotton Gin on March 14, 1794, born 1765. Jan Igenhousz, Dutch physician who discovered Photosynthesis, born 1730. Delaware River Crossing by George Washington, 1776. FACTOID: Washington actually crossed to fight the Hessians, the German mercenaries hired by the British. The flag in this historic painting had not been designed at the time of the crossing. |
9 |
|
10 |
Mississippi became
the 20th state (settled
in 1699) 1817. Emily Dickinson, American writer, born 1830. (d. 1886) |
11 |
Aurora
Borealis,
brilliant, colored
lights high
in the Earth's
atmosphere,
usually seen
in the polar
regions and
usually associated
with magnetic
storms & streaks
of sunlight
was first recorded,
1719. Indiana became the 19th state (settled in 1733), 1816. Robert Koch, German microbiologist who discovered the causes of Cholera & tuberculosis, born 1893. |
12 |
Pennsylvania became
the 2nd state (settled
in 1682), 1787. FACTOID: One
of the original
thirteen colonies. Washington D.C. was established as the capital of the United States, 1800. First radio signal sent across Atlantic Ocean from England to Newfoundland in North America by Guglielmo Marconi, 1901. Hanukkah (Sundown 12th-19th) [2009] |
13 |
Sir
Francis Drake,
an Englishmen,
began an exploration
to circumnavigate
the world, 1577. New Zealand was discovered by Abel Tasman of the Netherlands, 1642. Saddam Hussein, [b. April 28, 1937] president of Iraq since 1979, was captured in an underground bunker in Iraq after allied forces declared war on Iraq for his refusal to destroy nuclear weapons of mass destruction and his involvement in terrorist activities. [2003] |
14 |
South
Pole reached
by Roald Amundsen,
Norwegian explorer,
1911. Alabama became the 22nd state (settled in 1702), 1819. First US state highway authorized by Kentucky, 1793. George Washington died at Mount Vernon, VA, 1799. FACTOID: Eulogy by Colonel Henry Lee had the famous words, "To the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." |
15 |
Bill
of Rights (First
10 Amendments
to the Constitution)
adopted by US
Congress, 1791. John Paul Getty, Oil magnate, born 1892. Nero, Roman Emperor, born 37 A.D. |
16 |
Boston
Tea Party,
1773. FACTOID: Three
ships in November
1773 were emptied
of 342 chests
of tea into
the Boston Harbor
so no one could
benefit from
the tea or be
taxed. Jane Austen, English novelists, born 1775. [d. 7.18.1817] |
17 |
Wright
Brothers Day: First
motor powered
airplane by
Orville (born
August 19, 1871) & Wilbur
(born April
16, 1867) Wright
flown over the
sand dunes near Kitty
Hawk,
North Carolina
for twelve and
fifty-nine seconds,
respectively
in 1903. FACTOID: The
two brothers
were bicycle
mechanics who
crafted their
homemade contraption
whittled out
of hickory sticks,
gummed together
with Arstein's
bicycle cement
stretched with
muslin wings
sewed with their
sister's sewing
machine. www.firstflight.org Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer, born Bonn, Prussia, 1770. FACTOID: Became totally deaf at age 45, and later wrote "Ode to Joy." Died 1827, age 57. |
18 |
New
Jersey become
the 3rd state
(settled in
1660), 1787. FACTOID: One
of the original
thirteen colonies. Thirteenth Amendment to United States Constitution ratified, abolishing slavery, 1865. Stephen Spielberg, directing movies for such films as Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, born 1947. |
19 |
Washington's Continental Army encamped at Valley Forge, 11,000 men had to survive with barely any food or clothing in 1777. |
20 |
USSR formed,
1922. Sacagawea, American Indian guide for Lewis & Clark from 1804 to 1806, served as a guide and interpreter on their trek to the Pacific Ocean, died, 1812. FACTOID: 2004 - 2006 will celebrate the Bicentennial Years of Lewis & Clark expeditions. Louisiana Purchase negotiated, 1803. FACTOID: Thomas Jefferson arranged for the U.S. to pay $11,250,000 for 828,000 square miles of land, less than .03 per acre, one of his most notable achievements as president. |
21 |
Forefather's
Day - Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth, Massachusetts,
1620. FACTOID: Plimoth
Plantation re-creates
the life and site
of the Pilgrim's
first village
at Plymouth, MA. For
more information
visit www.plimoth.org Joseph Stalin, Russian leader, born 1879. Apollo 8 spacecraft launched by U.S., 1968. Winter begins FACTOID: The Sun is farthest from the equator and its apparent northward motion along the horizon ends. |
22 |
A Coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 65,000,000 years, was caught off the coast of South Africa, 1938. |
23 |
Sarah
Breedlove Walker, black
businesswoman "millionaire",
born 1867. U.S. Federal Reserve banks created 1913; they later opened November 16, 1914. |
24 |
War
of 1812 ended
by United States
and Great Britain's
signing of the Treaty
of Ghent,
1814. The Ku Klux Klan, a secret fraternal society, founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, 1865. "Silent Night" composed, 1818. Christmas Eve |
25 |
First
appearance of Sherlock
Holmes,
the detective, 1887. Clara Barton, founder of The American Red Cross on January 5, 1905, born 1821. Isaac Newton, English physicist and philosopher, born 1642. Christmas Day |
26 |
Mao
Tse-tung,
Chinese leader,
born 1893. Kwanzaa (Dec 26-1st) The most powerful earthquake in 40 years erupted under the Indian Ocean near Sumatra. A resulting Tsunami crashed ashore in 11 countries in southern Asia and eastern Africa killing over 250,000 people. Massive destruction and devastation everywhere, 2004. Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the U.S., dies at the age of 93. [2006] |
27 |
Louis
Pasteur,
French scientist,
born 1822. Johannes Kepler, Astronomer who founded the "celestial mechanics" having been the first to explain planetary motion, born 1571. Died 1630. |
28 |
Chewing
gum patented
1869. Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1913), born 1856. Iowa became the 29th state (settled in 1788), 1846. |
29 |
Battle
at Wounded Knee,
1890. Andrew Johnson, 17th President (1865), born 1807. Texas became the 28th state (settled in 1682) 1845. |
30 |
Andres
Vesalius, Flemish
anatomist first
described the human
body in
detail, 1514. Rudyard Kipling, British writer of Just So Stories, Jungle Book, and Captains Courageous, and a Nobel prize winner born, 1865. Saddam Hussein was hanged for ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite men and boys in the village of Dujail after an assassination attempt there in 1982. [2006] |
31 |
New
Years Eve Ellis Island, United States Immigration Depot opened 1890. Lord Cornwallis, British General who surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War, born 1738. |
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