Notable Historical Events on December 12th
December 12th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
627 |
Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen |
1098 |
1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria |
1408 |
Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon was first created on December 12, 1408 by Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the battle for possession of Bosnia. |
1474 |
Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile & Aragon |
1479 |
Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III |
1524 |
Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome |
1527 |
Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice |
1653 |
English Barebones Parliament ends |
1677 |
Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin |
1700 |
Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar |
1715 |
Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund [NS=12/23] |
1769 |
Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee |
1787 |
Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution |
1791 |
Bank of US opens |
1792 |
In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn |
1800 |
Washington DC established as capital of US |
1812 |
French invasion of Russia comes to an end. |
1822 |
Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US |
1858 |
1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent & 20 cent) |
1862 |
Battle of Dumfries, VA |
1862 |
Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed) |
1870 |
Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps |
1871 |
Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum |
1878 |
Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch" |
1884 |
1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval |
1897 |
Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania |
1897 |
Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal |
1897 |
Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded. |
1898 |
1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania |
1899 |
1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii |
1899 |
George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee |
1900 |
National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing", composed |
1901 |
Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland |
1903 |
Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo |
1904 |
CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna" premieres in NYC |
1906 |
Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce |
1911 |
Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India. |
1912 |
R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly" premieres in NYC |
1913 |
Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools |
1914 |
The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%. |
1915 |
1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany |
1915 |
Aristide Briand forms French war government |
1915 |
Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia |
1917 |
French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 |
1917 |
Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska |
1920 |
Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse" premieres in Paris |
1925 |
Arthur Heinman coins term "motel"; opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo |
1925 |
Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rezā Shāh Pahlavi takes over |
1926 |
Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano concert |
1928 |
Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe" premieres in NYC |
1930 |
Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book |
1930 |
Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double |
1930 |
Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide) |
1931 |
Japanese government of Imukai forms |
1932 |
S N Behrman's "Biography" premieres in NYC |
1932 |
USSR & China resume diplomatic relations |
1933 |
Eddie Shore hits Toronto Maple Leaf star Ace Bailey from behind, fracturing his skull and ending his career |
1936 |
Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan |
1937 |
NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY |
1937 |
Washington Redskins win NFL championship |
1937 |
Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations) |
1939 |
Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die |
1940 |
British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani |
1941 |
European reservists on Java mobilize |
1941 |
German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews |
1941 |
Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk |
1942 |
German offensive in South Western Stalingrad |
1942 |
A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people. |
1945 |
Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death |
1946 |
Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38 |
1946 |
Tide detergent introduced |
1946 |
UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr |
1947 |
United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL |
1948 |
Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. |
1949 |
AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball |
1950 |
16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB) |
1950 |
Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule |
1951 |
Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement |
1952 |
Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team |
1953 |
Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane |
1955 |
1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell |
1956 |
Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign. |
1957 |
Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo |
1957 |
US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond) |
1957 |
Willem J Kolff and his team at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic removed the heart from a dog and replaced it with a pneumatic pump which kept the dog alive for 90 minutes, proving the viability of the artificial heart |
1958 |
Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed |
1958 |
Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur |
1959 |
UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established |
1961 |
Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36 |
1961 |
Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron |
1963 |
Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped |
1963 |
Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK |
1964 |
Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes |
1964 |
Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) |
1965 |
Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales) |
1965 |
Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155 |
1965 |
Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record |
1965 |
Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC |
1966 |
US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta |
1967 |
US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit |
1968 |
Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis |
1968 |
Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill receives overwhelming support from Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs) at Stormont |
1969 |
"Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
1969 |
Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points) |
1969 |
Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed |
1969 |
Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombing - The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. |
1970 |
Polish government proclaims price rise |
1970 |
Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays |
1970 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1973 |
Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 & $10 silver coins) |
1973 |
San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC) |
1975 |
Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) |
1975 |
Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford |
1976 |
QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet |
1977 |
Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves |
1979 |
Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce |
1979 |
Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe |
1979 |
President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. |
1980 |
US's copyright law amended to include computer programs |
1981 |
"1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 37 performances |
1981 |
Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982 |
1982 |
"Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 perf |
1982 |
$9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC |
1982 |
57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63) |
1982 |
Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1982 |
"Snowplow Game", after a snowstorm holds both New England and Miami scoreless, Mark Henderson, a convict on work release, on order of Patriots coach Ron Meyer, clears the path for John Smith's attempt, which wins the game for the Patriots, 3-0 (the practice of using snow plows during games is later banned) |
1983 |
A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait |
1983 |
5th ACE Cable Awards: The VII International Tchaikovsky Competition by Robert Dalrymple and Ken Locker |
1985 |
248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash |
1985 |
DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die |
1985 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-207 |
1986 |
David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 v England at Adelaide |
1986 |
James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden |
1986 |
Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed |
1986 |
South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
1987 |
Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game |
1987 |
Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary |
1987 |
Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers |
1988 |
3 trains collide in London, 40 die |
1988 |
NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line) |
1988 |
PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist |
1988 |
Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
1990 |
US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks |
1990 |
US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait |
1991 |
Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community |
1991 |
NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81 |
1991 |
Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection |
1991 |
Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test |
1992 |
58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami-Fla (QB) |
1992 |
6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000) |
1992 |
Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada |
1992 |
Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World |
1992 |
NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals |
1993 |
"Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances |
1993 |
"Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances |
1993 |
WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC |
1995 |
CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31 |
1995 |
Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress |
1995 |
NBA referees return to work after striking |
1995 |
Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote) |
1996 |
Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain) |
1996 |
Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou |
1997 |
Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris |
1997 |
Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin |
1997 |
Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH |
1997 |
Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract |
1997 |
SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages |
1997 |
TWA 800 hearings end |
1997 |
Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him |
2000 |
The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore |
2001 |
Winona Ryder is arrested on shoplifting charges in Beverly Hills, California |
2003 |
Paul Martin becomes the Prime Minister of Canada |
2003 |
Jean Chretien formally resigns as the Prime Minister of Canada |
2006 |
Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry. |
2008 |
Andrei Klepach, a deputy economics minister of Russia, states that Russia has entered the recession, with two quarters of contraction expected, meaning Russia will fall short of reaching the 6.8% growth forecast for 2008 |
2013 |
The United States announces sanctions on the two dozen companies who assisted Iran with their nuclear program |
2015 |
Polls open in Saudi Arabia, first time women allowed to vote |
2015 |
At least 87 killed in latest Burundi violence |
2015 |
Heisman Trophy: Alabama running back Derrick Henry wins 2015 award |
2016 |
Russia says 728 rebels surrendered in Aleppo over past 24 hours |
2017 |
Trump accusers call for Congress to investigate sexual harassment allegations against him |
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