This Day in History
12 Dec 1904
CMS McClellans Leah Kleschna premieres in NYC
12 Dec 1906
Oscar Straus 1st Jewish US government member appointed Secretary of Commerce
12 Dec 1908
4th Australasian Championships Fred Alexander beats Alfred Dunlop (3-6 3-6 6-0 6-2 6-3)
12 Dec 1911
Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
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Mona Lisa recovered in Florence
Two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris Leonardo da Vincis masterpiece The Mona Lisa is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo ...
USS Panay sunk by Japanese
During the battle for Nanking in the Sino-Japanese War the U.S. gunboat Panay is attacked and sunk by Japanese warplanes in Chinese waters. The American vessel...
Marconi sends first Atlantic wireless transmission
Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean disproving detractors who told...
Father Flanagan establishes Boys Town
In Omaha Nebraska Father Edward J. Flanagan a 31-year-old Irish priest opens the doors to a home for troubled and neglected children and six boys enter to ...
GM announces phase-out of Oldsmobile
On this day in 2000 General Motors declares that it will begin to phase out the 103-year-old Oldsmobile the oldest automotive brand in the United States. Olds...
Da Vinci notebook sells for over 5 million
On this day in 1980 American oil tycoon Armand Hammer pays 5126000 at auction for a notebook containing writings by the legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci.T...
Procedural questions cause difficulty at the peace talks
The Paris Peace talks which opened on May 10 continue to be plagued by procedural questions that impeded any meaningful progress. South Vietnamese Premier Ng...
Philippine soldiers depart South Vietnam
The Philippine Civic Action Group a 1350-man contingent from the Army of the Philippines departs South Vietnam.The contingent was part of the Free World Mili...
NFL rookie Gale Sayers ties single-game TD record
On this day in 1965 the rookie running back Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears scores six touchdowns during a single game against the San Francisco 49ers at Chic...
JFK memorial album sets record for sales
On this day in 1963 a vinyl long-playing record (LP) called John Fitzgerald Kennedy A Memorial Album sets a record for album sales. A total of 4...
Cattle pioneer Charles Goodnight dies
Charles Goodnight co-founder of one of the most important southwestern cattle-drive trails dies on this day. He was 93 years old.Born in Illinois in 1836 Goo...
Flaubert is born
French novelist Gustave Flaubert author of Madame Bovary is born on this day in 1821 in Rouen France.Flaubert the son of the chief surgeon of the hospital ...
Hepburn, Tracy and Poitier star in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
On this day in 1967 Guess Whos Coming to Dinner a groundbreaking movie about an interracial romantic relationship starring Katharine Hepburn Spencer ...
French soldiers killed in train accident
More than 500 French soldiers are killed when their train derails in Modane France on this day in 1917. The troops were returning from fighting World War I in...
The Queen of Mean is sentenced to the slammer
Leona Helmsley nicknamed the Queen of Mean by the press receives a four-year prison sentence 750 hours of community service and a 7.1 million...
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