ON THIS DAY

December 1st
1918 - Transylvania unites with Romania.
1947 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist dies.
1959 - Cold War: Signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1969 - Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1981 - The AIDS virus is officially recognized. World AIDS day is observed around the world on this day every year from this date.
1990 - Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.

Quite a day indeed.
Good info Lady C

The entire month of December would seem to be a very busy month. Aside from the holidays even it is just a crowded month.

I found these two links to other things in December as well:

~Farshief

yeah everyone has started wearing red ribbons in recognition of AIDS day. i had no idea until yesterday lol

to add on this day

Romania - National Day of Romania (Union Day)

1960 - Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany after accusations of attempted arson.


born on this day
1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
1940 - Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian (d. 2005)
1970 - Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian

Also on this day

December 2nd

1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
1814 - French writer the Marquis de Sade dies.
1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French.
1956 - The yacht carrying Fidel Castro and Che Guevara reaches the shores of Cuba and they and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
20 years later on the very same day in
1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba.
1981 - American singer Britney Spears is born.

wow. i didnt know all that

Wow really alot gonig on.
Thanks for the French 1800's info Lady C, may pass history now lol

Days can be truly monumental and sometimes you dont even know it

Perhaps we should keep this up for the month of December since it is such a busy month? That way we will all pass our history -*test*-('")s

~Farshief

I like knowing what went on on days like the birthdays of people I know, and mine of course.

This is good, but I wonder how long Lady C can keep it up before she comes to a day when NOTHING interesting happened? lol

ok for this day then (just cuz im bored and searching wikipedia anyway) :

1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
2005 - XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.


Births:
1826 - George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885)
1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, English singer
1952 - Mel Smith, English comedian
1960 - Julianne Moore, American actress
1968 - Brendan Fraser, American actor
1979 - Daniel Bedingfield, English singer


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International Day of the Basque language
Feast day of St. Francis Xavier in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints