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December 1 1887 |
Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet"
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December 2 1804 |
Napoleon was crowned emperor of France
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December 3 1967 |
First human heart transplant performed by Dr Christian Barnard
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December 4 1996 |
Wilf Carter, country music and yodelling legend, died, at the age of 91
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December 5 1791 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer, dies in Vienna, Austria, at 35
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December 6 1849 |
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
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December 7 1941 |
Pearl Harbor Day
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December 8 1915 |
The poem In Flanders Fields, by Canadian John McCrae, was published for the first time in Punch magazine
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December 9 1608 |
English poet John Milton was born in London
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December 10 1964 |
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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December 11 1719 |
The first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis took place
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December 12 1913 |
Authorities in Florence, Italy, announced that the "Mona Lisa," stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, had been recovered
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December 13 1843 |
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published
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December 14 1911 |
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole
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December 15 1939 |
World premiere of "Gone With The Wind"
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December 16 1971 |
Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
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December 17 1874 |
Canada's 10th prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, was born
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December 18 1966 |
Dr Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for first time on CBS
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December 19 1918 |
Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column
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December 20 1919 |
The first sod was turned for the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa
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December 21 1898 |
Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium
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December 22 1969 |
John Lennon and Yoko Ono met with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Ottawa as a part of the couple's peace campaign, "Bed-in For Peace"in Montreal
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December 23 1823 |
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore was published
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December 24 1964 |
Shooting began on "The Cage", the pilot for Star Trek
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December 25 1066 |
William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
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December 26 1825 |
Erie Canal opens
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December 27 1831 |
Darwin begins his voyage to South America on board the HMS Beagle
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December 28 1976 |
Genie Francis joined "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
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December 29 1890 |
The Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as some 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them
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December 30 1869 |
Birth of Canadian Stephen Leacock, economist/humorist/professor
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December 31 1935 |
Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
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