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Today in History
December 12
December 12
1753 | George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s claim to the entire Ohio River valley. | |
1770 | The British soldiers responsible for the "Boston Massacre" are acquitted on murder charges. | |
1862 | The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River. | |
1863 | Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners. | |
1901 | Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John’s Newfoundland. | |
1927 | Communists forces seize Canton, China. | |
1930 | The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town. | |
1930 | The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany. | |
1931 | Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal rule over most of China. | |
1943 | The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad. | |
1943 | The exiled Czech government signs a treaty with the Soviet Union for postwar cooperation. | |
1956 | The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary. | |
1964 | Kenya becomes a republic. | |
1964 | Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon. | |
1967 | The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam. | |
1979 | South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan, acting without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa, alleging that the chief of staff was involved in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee. | |
1985 | Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff at Gander, Newfoundland; among the 256 dead are 236 members of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division. | |
1991 | The Russian Federation becomes independent from the USSR. | |
1995 | Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco. | |
2000 | The US Supreme Court announces its decision in Bush v. Gore, effectively ending legal changes to the results of that year’s Presidential election. | |
Born on December 12 | ||
1745 | John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who negotiated treaties for the United States. | |
1805 | William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist who published The Liberator. | |
1821 | Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary, A Simple Heart). | |
1863 | Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist (The Scream). | |
1893 | Edward G. Robinson, actor famous for gangster roles. | |
1897 | Lillian Smith, Southern writer and civil rights activist. | |
1912 | Henry Jackson Jr, boxer using the name Henry Armstrong, the only fighter to hold 3 professional boxing titles simultaneously. | |
1915 | Frank Sinatra, American pop singer and actor. | |
1927 | Robert Norton Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit. | |
1928 | Helen Frankenthaler, abstract painter. | |
1929 | John Osbourne, playwright and film producer (Look Back in Anger). | |
1938 | Connie Francis, singer. | |
1940 | Dionne Warwick, singer, actress. | |
1943 | Grover Washington Jr, singer, songwriter, musician, producer. | |
1952 | Cathy Rigby, gymnast, actress. |
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