On this day ......

[unloadonme]

1 December 1866 – Death of Colonel Sir George Everest, namesake of Mt Everest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest

 

[MassRuss]

December 1, 1988 - 1st World AIDS Day ceremony @ the UN in NYC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day

Earlier in 1988, I had been asked by Hospital Administration (East Orange General, Northern NJ to serve on the committee to help set up our Infectious Disease (read AIDS) unit. It was the 1st unit of it's kind in NJ. I was asked because I was openly & proudly gay, & administration accepted that, & realized I could have a positive impact. We had opened the unit @ the end of summer that year.

With the committee, I attended the 1st ceremony @ the UN in NYC.

 

[Pickwick]

That's History !!!!!!
November 30 1803 In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
November 30 2013 Death of Paul Walker in a tragic car accident.

December 1 1081 Birth of Louis VI of France

December 2 1723 Death of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, French nobleman, regent for Louis XV of France.

 

[unloadonme]

2 December 1849 – Death of Queen Adelaide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_of_Saxe-Meiningen

 

[MassRuss]

December 2, 1859 - Death, by hanging, of American John Brown, abolitionist, insurrectionist @ Charles Town, VA (now WV)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)

 

[Pickwick]

December 3 1368 Birth of Charles VI of France (the mad)

 

[unloadonme]

3 December 1857 – Birth of Joseph Conrad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad

 

[MassRuss]

December 3, 1894 - Death of Robert Louis Stevenson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson

 

[Pickwick]

after a long hesitationDecember 4 1642 Death of Cardinal Richelieu, French clergyman and politician, 1st Chief Minister of the French King.

 

[unloadonme]

4 December 1828 – Death of Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, KG, PC, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool

 

[Pickwick]

December 5 1492 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

 

[unloadonme]

5 December 1859 – Birth of Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jellicoe,_1st_Earl_Jellicoe

 

[Pickwick]

Decembber 6 1421 Birth of Henry VI of England

 

[unloadonme]

7 December 1545 – Birth of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, English husband of Mary, Queen of Scots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stuart,_Lord_Darnley

 

[MassRuss]

December 7, 1941 - Imperial Japan attacks the US (Hawaii, Philippines. Wake, Guam) the British Empire (Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya), Netherlands (East Indies).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Singapore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies_campaign

 

[unloadonme]

7 December 1863 – Birth of Pietro Mascagni

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Mascagni

 

[unloadonme]

8 December 1980 – Murder of John Lennon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon

 

[MassRuss]

December 8, 1941 - FDR's "Day of Infamy Speech - US declares war on Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Infamy

Great Britain declares war on Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_declaration_of_war_on_Japan_(1941)

 

[Pickwick]

09 December 1946 The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" begin with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.

 

[unloadonme]

9 December 1964 – Death of Dame Edith Sitwell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sitwell