Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut. A 20-year-old man wearing combat gear and armed with semiautomatic…
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13 December 1642
Abel Tasman arrives in New Zealand. Abel Tasman was the first European to ‘discover’ New Zealand in 1642. His men were the first Europeans to…
12 December 1935
A Nazi reproduction program (Lebensborn Project) is started by Heinrich Himmler. The Lebensborn project was one of most secret and terrifying Nazi projects. Heinrich Himmler…
11 December 1934
One of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson, takes his last drink. On December 11, 1934, William Griffith Wilson took his last drink of…
10 December 1901
The first Nobel Prize is awarded. Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, Alfred B. Nobel, established the Nobel Prizes in his will. This bequeathment allegedly…
5 December 1933
The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. On Dec. 5, 1933, national Prohibition came to an end, as Utah became the 36th…
4 December 1881
The Los Angeles Times is published for the first time. The Los Angeles Times was first published on December 4, 1881, under the name of…
3 December 1368
Charles VI of France is born Charles VI, by name Charles the Well-beloved or the Mad, French Charles le Bien-aimé or L’insensé was born on…
2 December 1939
LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York opens. The world’s greatest and most costly airport, the $38,000,000 LaGuardia Field at North Beach, Queens, was opened…
1 December 1577
Francis Walsingham gets a knighthood. Sir Francis Walsingham was a government administrator in the reign of Elizabeth I. Walsingham is principally remembered for his…