THIS MONTH IN HISTORYDECEMBER

01/12/1959. Wally Lewis. Famous Australian & Queensland Rugby League player is born.01/12/1987. World Health Organisation declares the 1st. Aids day.02/12/1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France

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02/12/1972. Gough Whitlam becomes the 1st. Labor Prime Minister of Australia in 23 years.02/12/1976. Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba.03/12/1854. The Eureka Stockade takes place in Victoria in which 20 miners are killed by State troopers over mining licences.

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03/12/1967. Dr Christian Barnard a South African heart surgeon performs the 1st. human heart transplant.04/12/1795. Thomas Carlyle. Scottish author is born.05/12/1901. Walt Disney. American film producer is born.

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05/12/2013. Nelson Mandela. The 1st. Black President of South Africa & Nobel Peace Prize winner (1993) dies,

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06/12/1768. The 1st. Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published.06/12/1865. The 13th. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified banning slavery in America.06/12/1917. Finland declares its independence from Russia.

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07/12/1941. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour takes place in W.W.2.07/12/1997. Billy Bremner. Former football captain of Leeds United & Scotland dies.08/12/1542. Mary Queen of Scots is born.

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08/12/1854. Pope Pius 10th. Proclaims the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception which states that the Virgin Mary was born free from original sin.08/12/1934. The 1st. weekly airmail service between England & Australia takes place.

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08/12/1941. The U.S.A. Declares War on Japan.08/12/1941. Sir Geoff Hurst. English Footballer & the only player ever to score 3 goals in a World Cup final is born.08/12/1978. Golda Meir. The 1st. Female Prime Minister of Israel dies.08/12/1980. John Lennon is shot & killed in New York city.

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORYDecember

09/12/1608. John Milton. English poet is born.09/12/1929. Bob Hawke. The 23rd. Prime Minister of Australia is born.09/12/1979. Small Pox is eradicated making it the 1st. & only disease driven to extinction.10/12/1902. Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.

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10/12/1908. New Zealand born Lord Ernest Rutherford wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.10/12/1919. Australian aviators Ross & Keith Smith complete the 1st. ever flight from the U.K. to Australia.10/12/1932. Thailand becomes a Constitutional Monarchy.

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11/12/1912. Carlo Ponti. Italian film producer is born.11/12/1918. Alexksander Solzhenitsyn. Russian author & Nobel Prize winner for literature is born.11/12/1936. King Edward 7th. abdicates the English Throne.

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12/12/1963. Kenya becomes an independent nation.12/12/1979. Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe.13/12/1577. Sir Francis Drake leaves England to sail around the world attacking Spanish possessions.

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14/12/1503.The French astrologer Nostradamus is born.14/12/1911. Roald Amundsen. The Norwegian explorer becomes the 1st. person to reach the South Pole.15/12/1966. American film producer Walt Disney dies.

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15/12/2013. Famous British/American Actress Joan Fontaine dies.15/12/2014. A gunman takes 17 Hostages inside the Lindt Café in Sydney. He & 2 hostages die the next day when Police raid the café.

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16/12/1653. Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector & ruler of England.16/12/1689. The English Parliament passes the Bill of Rights.16/12/1773. The Boston Tea party takes place leading to the American Revolution.

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16/12/1775. Jane Austen. English novelist is born.16/12/1889. Sir Noel Coward. English actor & playwright is born.16/12/2014. Militants attack a Public school in Pakistan killing 145 people including 132 school children.

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17/12/1538. Pope Paul 3rd. excommunicates King Henry 8th. of England.17/12/1778. Sir Humphry Davy. English chemist is born

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17/12/1967. Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears whilst swimming alone off Cheviot beach near Melbourne.17/12/2014. The United States & Cuba re establish Diplomatic Relations after 56 years.

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18/12/1642. Abel Tasman becomes the 1st. European to visit New Zealand.18/12/2013. Famous English Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs dies.19/12/1946. The start of the 1st. Indochina War.

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20/12/1803. The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.20/12/1894. Australia’s longest serving Prime Minister Sir Robert Gordon Menzies is born.20/12/1915. The last Australian troops leave Gallipoli.

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20/12/1968. American writer John Steinbeck dies.21/12/1879. The Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin is born.21/12/2013. David Coleman. Famous English Sports commenter dies.

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22/12/1858. Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini is born.22/12/1899. British film producer J. Arthur Rank is born.22/12/2014. Joe Cocker - famous English singer & songwriter dies.

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24/12/1814. The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.24/12/1818. In Austria, the Christmas Carol Silent Night is performed for the 1st. time.24/12/1951. Libya becomes independent.

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December 25th. Christians celebrate Christmas Day as the birth of Jesus Christ.25/12/1066. William the Conqueror is crowned King of England.25/12/1642. English Scientist Sir Isaac Newton is born.25/12/1974. Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin.

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25/12/1991. The Soviet Union is dissolved.December 26th. is celebrated as Boxing Day invarious countries.26/12/1791. Charles Babbage. British scientist known as: “the father of the computer” is born.

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26/12/1893. Mao Zedong is born.26/12/1898. Pierre & Marie Curie isolate radium.26/12/1941. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a Bill establishing the 4th. Thursday in November in the U.S.A. as Thanksgiving Day.

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY.DECEMBER

27/12/1571. German astronomer Johannes Kepler is born.27/12/1822. French chemist Louis Pasteur is born.27/12/2012. U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf who led the U.S. Troops in the 1st. Gulf War dies.29/12/1170. St Thomas Becket is murdered in Canterbury England.

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28/12/2014. Air flight Asia QZ 8501 disappears off the radar on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore and crashes into the ocean killing all 162 people on board.29/12/2012. Tony Greig. Former England Cricket Captain & Channel 9 TV Cricket Broadcaster dies.

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30/12/1865. Rudyard Kipling. British writer is born.30/12/1965. Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.31/12/1600. The Dutch East India Company is formed.31/12/1869. Henri Matisse. French painter is born.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH:

“ Yesterday, December 7th. 1941 – a day which will live in infamy – the United States of

America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asking the U.S. Congress for a declaration of War on Japan: 8th. December 1941