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…
30 November 1936
The Crystal Palace in London is destroyed by fire. On November 30, 1936, the Crystal Palace, an iconic structure which had come to epitomise the…
29 November 1847
The missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife along with 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians. this leads to the Cayuse War….
28 November 1912
Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. On November 28, 1912 Albanian nationalist leader Ismail Qemal, an Ottoman civil servant who rose to the…
27 November 2006
A motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that recognizes the Québécois as a nation within Canada is passed. The House of Commons has overwhelmingly…