December
December 1:
-In 1955, Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She is arrested, fingerprinted, fined $14, and jailed by the police.
-In 1964, Martin Luther King speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about a slander campaign.
December 2:
-In 1859, abolitionist leader John Brown was executed for treason at Charles Town, West Virginia, following his raid on U.S Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
-In 1620, the English language newspaper “Namloos” begins publishing in Amsterdam.
December 3:
-In 1868, the first blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial.
-In 1948, the first US woman army officer not in the medical corps was sworn in.
December 4:
-In 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha forms, which is the first Black Greek Letter Fraternity.
-In 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society formed in Philadelphia by Arthur Tappan.
December 5:
-In 1955, Rosa Parks stands trial and is found guilty of breaking segregation laws.
-In 1955, Martin Luther King becomes president of Montgomery Improvement Association , which protested against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott begins and lasts 381 days.
December 6:
-In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, which abolished slavery.
-In 1849, Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the 2nd and final time.
December 7:
-In 1907, Eugene Corri became the first referee to be in the boxing ring.
-In 1941, The U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese aircrafts in a raid that lasted just over one hour and left nearly 3,000 Americans dead.
December 8:
-In 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, The United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
-In 1946, French fashion designer, Christian Dior and his assistant Marcel Boussac found the fashion house Christian Dior.
December 9:
-In 1978, the first game of Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL) occurred. This was between the Chicago Hustle vs. Milwaukee Does.
-In 1909, The 1st US monoplane was flown. The plane was flown by Henry W. Walden from Long Island, NY.
December 10:
-In 1964, the Nobel Peace Prize was presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo.
-Ralph J. Bunche was the 1st Black American that presented the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
December 11:
-In 1872, the first black US governor, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, took office.
-13 black soldiers were hanged for their participation in a Houston riot in 1917.
December 12:
-In 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 other demonstrators are arrested in Albany, Georgia.
-In 1955, the first prototype of the hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell.
December 13:
-In 1995, the US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations.
-In 1903, the Wright Brothers make the first flight to Kittyhawk.
December 14:
-In 1915, Jack Johnson was the first black world heavyweight boxing champion.
-In 1969, The Jackson Five made their first appearance on the “Ed Sullivan Show.”
December 15:
-In 1791, the US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval and that becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution.
-In 1792, the first life insurance policy issued in the United States. This occurred in Philadelphia.
December 16:
-In 1924, Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in the office, which is the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor.
-In 1890, the Negro Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in Jackson, Tennessee.
December 17:
-In 1903, after three years of experimentation, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered, controlled airplane flights. They made four flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, which is the longest lasting and about a minute.
-In 2012, NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field.
December 18:
-In 1865, The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified abolishing slavery, stating, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, save as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
-In 1972, the US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam.
December 19:
-In 1732, Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanac containing weather predictions, humor, proverbs and epigrams, eventually selling nearly 10,000 copies per year.
-In 1891, the first Negro Catholic priest ordained in the United States in Charles Uncles, Baltimore
December 20:
-In 1956, The Montgomery buses are desegregated and the black passengers could take any seat on the city’s buses legally.
-In 1893, the first state anti-lynching statute was approved in Georgia.
December 21:
-In 1909, the first junior high school was established in Berkeley, California.
-In 1937, the first feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres, which was Snow White.
December 22:
-In 1910, the first United States postal savings stamps was issued.
-In 1941, Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC for a wartime conference.
December 23:
-In 1907, the first all-steel passenger railroad coach was completed in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
-1943, the first telecast of a complete opera, which was Hansel and Gretel. This took place in Schenectady, New York.
December 24:
-In 1832, the first United States Negro hospital was founded by whites chartered in Savannah, Georgia.
-1948, the first United States completely solar heated house is occupied in Dover, Massachusetts.
December 25:
-1930, the first United States bobsled run opened at Lake Placid, New York.
-In 1769, the first Christian service in New Zealand occurred.
December 26:
-In 1620, the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
-In 1862, the first United States navy hospital ship enters service.
December 27:
-In 1906, the first annual meeting of American Sociological Society occurred in Providence, Rhode Island.
-1825, 1st public railway using steam locomotive completed in England between Stockton and Darlington.
December 28:
-In 1860, Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York on her last mission to free slaves, evading capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad.
In 1973, US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law.
December 29:
-In 1851, the first American Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1867, the first telegrapher ticker used by a brokerage house in Groesbeck and Co., New York.
December 30:
-In 1731, the first US music concert, (Peter Pelham’s great room in Boston).
-In 1861, the US banks stops payments in gold.
December 31:
-In 1890, Ellis Island in New York City opens as a US immigration depot.
-In 1923, the first transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, in Pittsburgh-Manchester.
-In 1955, Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She is arrested, fingerprinted, fined $14, and jailed by the police.
-In 1964, Martin Luther King speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about a slander campaign.
December 2:
-In 1859, abolitionist leader John Brown was executed for treason at Charles Town, West Virginia, following his raid on U.S Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
-In 1620, the English language newspaper “Namloos” begins publishing in Amsterdam.
December 3:
-In 1868, the first blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial.
-In 1948, the first US woman army officer not in the medical corps was sworn in.
December 4:
-In 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha forms, which is the first Black Greek Letter Fraternity.
-In 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society formed in Philadelphia by Arthur Tappan.
December 5:
-In 1955, Rosa Parks stands trial and is found guilty of breaking segregation laws.
-In 1955, Martin Luther King becomes president of Montgomery Improvement Association , which protested against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott begins and lasts 381 days.
December 6:
-In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, which abolished slavery.
-In 1849, Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the 2nd and final time.
December 7:
-In 1907, Eugene Corri became the first referee to be in the boxing ring.
-In 1941, The U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese aircrafts in a raid that lasted just over one hour and left nearly 3,000 Americans dead.
December 8:
-In 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, The United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
-In 1946, French fashion designer, Christian Dior and his assistant Marcel Boussac found the fashion house Christian Dior.
December 9:
-In 1978, the first game of Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL) occurred. This was between the Chicago Hustle vs. Milwaukee Does.
-In 1909, The 1st US monoplane was flown. The plane was flown by Henry W. Walden from Long Island, NY.
December 10:
-In 1964, the Nobel Peace Prize was presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo.
-Ralph J. Bunche was the 1st Black American that presented the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
December 11:
-In 1872, the first black US governor, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, took office.
-13 black soldiers were hanged for their participation in a Houston riot in 1917.
December 12:
-In 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 other demonstrators are arrested in Albany, Georgia.
-In 1955, the first prototype of the hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell.
December 13:
-In 1995, the US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations.
-In 1903, the Wright Brothers make the first flight to Kittyhawk.
December 14:
-In 1915, Jack Johnson was the first black world heavyweight boxing champion.
-In 1969, The Jackson Five made their first appearance on the “Ed Sullivan Show.”
December 15:
-In 1791, the US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval and that becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution.
-In 1792, the first life insurance policy issued in the United States. This occurred in Philadelphia.
December 16:
-In 1924, Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in the office, which is the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor.
-In 1890, the Negro Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in Jackson, Tennessee.
December 17:
-In 1903, after three years of experimentation, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered, controlled airplane flights. They made four flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, which is the longest lasting and about a minute.
-In 2012, NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field.
December 18:
-In 1865, The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified abolishing slavery, stating, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, save as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
-In 1972, the US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam.
December 19:
-In 1732, Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanac containing weather predictions, humor, proverbs and epigrams, eventually selling nearly 10,000 copies per year.
-In 1891, the first Negro Catholic priest ordained in the United States in Charles Uncles, Baltimore
December 20:
-In 1956, The Montgomery buses are desegregated and the black passengers could take any seat on the city’s buses legally.
-In 1893, the first state anti-lynching statute was approved in Georgia.
December 21:
-In 1909, the first junior high school was established in Berkeley, California.
-In 1937, the first feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres, which was Snow White.
December 22:
-In 1910, the first United States postal savings stamps was issued.
-In 1941, Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC for a wartime conference.
December 23:
-In 1907, the first all-steel passenger railroad coach was completed in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
-1943, the first telecast of a complete opera, which was Hansel and Gretel. This took place in Schenectady, New York.
December 24:
-In 1832, the first United States Negro hospital was founded by whites chartered in Savannah, Georgia.
-1948, the first United States completely solar heated house is occupied in Dover, Massachusetts.
December 25:
-1930, the first United States bobsled run opened at Lake Placid, New York.
-In 1769, the first Christian service in New Zealand occurred.
December 26:
-In 1620, the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
-In 1862, the first United States navy hospital ship enters service.
December 27:
-In 1906, the first annual meeting of American Sociological Society occurred in Providence, Rhode Island.
-1825, 1st public railway using steam locomotive completed in England between Stockton and Darlington.
December 28:
-In 1860, Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York on her last mission to free slaves, evading capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad.
In 1973, US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law.
December 29:
-In 1851, the first American Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1867, the first telegrapher ticker used by a brokerage house in Groesbeck and Co., New York.
December 30:
-In 1731, the first US music concert, (Peter Pelham’s great room in Boston).
-In 1861, the US banks stops payments in gold.
December 31:
-In 1890, Ellis Island in New York City opens as a US immigration depot.
-In 1923, the first transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, in Pittsburgh-Manchester.