Dec 30 This Day in History

Swami, Southern border, Tojo, Iroquois Theater fire, Bert Parks, Rasputin, USSR, Bo Didley, Sandy Koufax, Skeeter Davis, UAW strike, Marcos and the Philippines, Led Zeppelin, Famous birthdays, and more, this day in history, December 30.

Dec 29 This Day in History

Pundit, Thomas Becket, Charles Goodyear, Texas History, YMCA, Wounded Knee, Jon Voight, WWII news, and more, this day in history, December 29.

Dec 28 This Day in History

Avatar, Hanukkah, Thomas Payne, John C. Calhoun, Woodrow Wilson, Labor Day, Movies, X-Rays, Earthquakes, Streetcars, Stan Lee, The “First Movie Star,” Seth Meyers, The Gulag Archipelago, the first in-vitro birth, and more, this day in history, December 28

Dec 27 This Day in History

Brahmin, Hagia Sophia, Johannes Kepler, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Stephen Austin, Ether, Stagger Lee, Carrie Nation, Peter Pan, Show Boat, Radio City Music Hall, Wartime rationing, Montgomery Ward, Apollo 8, and Soviets in Afghanistan, this day in history, December 27.

Dec 26 This Day in History

Fink, Revolutionary War news, early computers, Father of Texas, Chairman Mao, Radium, WWI news, Babe Ruth, Phil Specter, FDR, WWII news, The Flamingo, Kwanzaa, The Beatles, The Exorcist, notable births & deaths, and more, this day in history, December 26.

Dec 25 This Day in History

Gaminesque, Santa Maria, Halley’s Comet, Crossing the Delaware, Clara Barton, Helena Rubenstein, Louis Chevrolet, Layne Hall, Conrad Hilton, Humphrey Bogart, Cab Calloway, Wilson Fittipaldi, W.C. Fields, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “White Christmas,” the demise of the Soviet Union, notable births & deaths, and more, this day in history, December 25.

Dec 24 This Day in History

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Oryzivorous, the “Puffer,” War of 1812, Silent Night, Library fire, Howard Hughes, John Muir, Ava Gardner, Bob Hope, Immigration law, Apollo 8, flying saucers, and more, this day in history, Christmas Eve, December 24.  🎁🎄🎁

Dec 23 This Day in History

Numpty, Plymouth settlement, George Washington, Jane Austen, Van Gogh, Federal Reserve Act, Transistors, WWII news, Kidney transplants, Chuck Berry, Tallest building, Balloon Boy, and more, this day in history, December 23.

Dec 22 This Day in History

Fabulist, Vespasian (again), Beethoven, Savannah GA, Lincoln Tunnel, WWI and WWII news, Gorillas, Nixon & Eisenhower, Romanian Gov’t falls, many notable birthdays, and more, this day in history, December 22.

Dec 21 This Day in History

Hawkshaw, Patton, DeGaulle, The Graduate, Apollo 8, Curious George, Gangnam Style, and more, this day in history, December 21.

Dec 20 This Day in History

Juxtapose, Vespasian, Jamestown Virginia, Louisiana Purchase, Andrew Jackson, Secessions begin, Petri dish early Hitler, WWII news, It’s a Wonderful Life, Elvis Presley,  Berlin Wall, Zodiac killer, John Steinbeck, Panama, and Queen Elizabeth, this day in History, December 20.

Dec 19 This Day in History

Aggrate, Poor Richard’s Almanack, “The American Crisis,” Valley Forge, “A Christmas Carol,” NHL, WWII news, back from the moon, World Series renegade, Sakharov freed, Titanic, Clinton, and more, this day in history, December 19.

Dec 18 This Day in History

Antigoglin, Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth Harbor, Slavery abolished, vigilantes stopped, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, a faux fossil, Prohibition passes, Japan invades Hong Kong, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, a Saturnian Moon discovered, Nixon escalates in Vietnam, and more, this day in history, December 18.

Dec 17 This Day in History

Lustrate, Aztec calendar stone, American Revolution, Civil War, Vogue, First Flight, Radiocarbon dating, 

Uranium, Sphexishness, Japanese Internment, Project Blue Book, Land Speed Record, Operation Iceman, The Simpsons, end of the Soviet Union, Lord of the Rings, and more, this day in history, December 17.

Dec 16 This Day in History

Dogmatic, Beethoven, Boston Tea Party, Jane Austen, New Madrid earthquakes, Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Arthur C. Clarke, Battle of the Bulge, Transistors, mid-air collision, Colonel Sanders, Avatar, and more, this day in history, December 16.

Dec 14 This Day in History

Jinx, Mary Queen of Scots, Tyco Brahe, George Washington, Presidential pardon, Burglar confesses to kidnapping, Quantum Theory, Indy “Brickyard,” South Pole, Women vote, League of Nations, Plutonium, Patty Duke, Antarctica, Vietnam, and Saturday Night Fever, this day in history, December 14.

Dec 13 This Day in History

Transpicuous, The Council of Trent, The National Guard, Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Dartmouth College, Grandma Moses, Moonwalkers, famous births and deaths, and more, this day in history, December 13.

Dec 12 This Day in History

Xeric, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Pennsylvania, Wells Fargo, Warner Brothers, Edward G. Robinson, early radio with Marconi, Mona Lisa, Frank Sinatra, Boys Town, Bob Barker, Dionne Warwick, JFK, Gale Sayers, groundbreaking cinema, Smokey Robinson, da Vinci, the Queen of Mean, and more, this day in history, December 12.

Dec 11 This Day in History

Kludge, University of North Carolina, Indiana statehood, Max Born, Walter Knott, Bill Wilson’s last drink, a king abdicates for love, the Rolling Stones, Apollo 17, and the Lufthansa heist, this day in history, December 11.

Dec 10 This Day in History

Eldritch, First paper currency in the Western Hemisphere, Encyclopedia Britannica, John Jay, the French Metre, Mississippi becomes a state, Emily Dickenson, First traffic lights, Sherman in Savannah, Wyoming suffrage, Mark Twain, War ended, the Nobel prizes, Ford’s millionth car,  a kidnapping, Otis Redding’s Dock of the Bay, Avatar, and more, this day in history, December 10.

Dec 8 This Day in History

Vociferate, Mary Queen of Scots, Amnesty and Reconstruction, James Thurber, declaration of war, the man who built Detroit, Vietnam war ending, John Lennon dies, superpowers reduce arsenals, NAFTA, births, deaths, and more, this day in history, December 8.

Dec 7 This Day in History

Spartan, Delaware, Lewis & Clark, Pearl Harbor, Larry Bird, Instant Replay, Lethal Injection, Apollo 17, Sugar Ray Leonard, Oceans Eleven, Greg Lake, famous births and deaths, and more, this day in history, December 7

Dec 6 This Day in History

Gastronomes, Slavery abolished, Vigilante justice, Washington Post, Washington Monument, Roosevelt’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Monongah Mine disaster, Great Halifax explosion, Republic of Ireland, James Joyce’s Ulyses, WWII news, Altamont debacle, famous births & deaths, and more, this day in history, December 6.

Dec 5 This Day in History

Christies’ Auctions, Ghost ship, Cessna, Disney, Stalin, Prohibition ends, Lockheed Martin, Medal of honor, Take Five, SO many famous births and deaths, and more, this day in history, December 5.

Dec 4 This Day in History

Quaker gun trick, 13th Amendment, the Grange, Boss Tweed, PTSD, Peace Talks, Mob boss, Smog, Burger King, Free Speech, Grateful Dead, San Francisco, Hostage freed, Amanda Knox, Typhoons, famous births and deaths, and more, this day in history, December 4.

Dec 3 This Day in History

Robert Louis Stevenson, Jupiter’s moon, Neon lights, Laurel & Hardy, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camelot, Ozzy Osborne, Mickey Thomas, Rick Mears, First heart transplant, the AMC Pacer,  Knott’s Berry Farm, Forensic crime solving, the end of the Cold War, and more, this day in history, December 3.

Dec 2 This Day in History

William Cooper, founder of Cooperstown, Napoleon crowned Emperor, Marquis de Sade, the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, the Ringling Brothers, the 13th Amendment, the Ford Model A, La Guardia Airport, Nuclear reactions, Joseph McCarthy, Communist Cuba, the EPA, the Temptations, Aaron Copeland, Pablo Escobar, and more, this day in history, December 2.

Dec 1 This Day in History

George Washington, Dalai Lama, the 12th Amendment, Lincon’s State of the Union, Ford’s Assembly Line, Mary Martin, Iceland, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Antarctica, Pinwheel/Nickelodeon, English Channel tunnel, famous birthdays and deaths, and more, this day in history, December 1.