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Inventions: 50 years ago

1953 - 'Loyalty Day' established by a joint resolution of the Georgia General Assembly to combat the base supplications of godless hordes of socialism by a rededication of our lives to God, country, and the sacred course of individual liberty.

Source: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/1953resn-5.htm

News: 25 years ago
1978 - A Fischer Brothers Aviation aircraft de Havilland DH-114 Riley Heron 2 collided with another aircraft at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport but miraculously there were no fatalities.

Source: http://aviation-safety.net/database/1978/781218-0.htm

News: 10 years ago
1993 - The Washington Post published the common phrase we use today, "surf the Internet."

Source: http://www.netmom.com/about/origin.shtml

News: 5 years ago
1998 - Clinton orders continued strikes on Iraq.

Source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777541.html

News: 1 year ago
2002- “Ralphie” Rooster, with no known address, is arrested for vagrancy, in the 4000 block of North 42nd Street in Lincoln, Nebraska, by an Animal Control officer and jailed at the Capitol Humane Society, where he is given the alias Ralphie, as he does not reveal his real name.

Source: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4dec18.html

December 18th happenings in history!

Births:

1707 - Charles Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist Movement was born.

1963 - Brad Pitt of Shawnee OK who made it in Hollywood was born.

1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, star of the FOX hit series "24" was born.

1968 - Casper Van Dien, actor of the hit movie "Omega Code" was born.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Deaths:

0468 - Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Entertainment:

1892 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres.

1966 - Dr Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS.

1976 - "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC.

1989 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years.

1996 - TV industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

News:

1621 - English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation.

1777 - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender.

1787 - New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution.

1796 - 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor).

1799 - George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon.

1839 - 1st celestial photograph of the moon was made in US by John Draper, New York NY.

1849 - William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope.

1859 - South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth."

1944 - Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants.

1956 - Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai.

1960 - General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid.

1961 - India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu.

1969 - Britain abolishes death penalty.

1971 - People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chicago.

1972 - US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam.

1980 - IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike.

1980 - Vietnam adopts constitution.

1985 - UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking".

1987 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari.

1987 - Ivan F Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

2000 - In US state capitals members of the electoral college cast votes for US president, 271 votes for George W. Bush and 266 for Al Gore (one DC Gore elector cast a blank ballot to protest DC's taxation without representation). Some Democrats had tried to convince a few Republican electors to switch to Gore (who has won the popular vote), but in vain. The votes would be officially counted on Jan 6th during a joint session of Congress.

Source: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4dec18.html

Religion:

1904 - Indian mystic Sundar Singh, 15, was converted to Christianity through a vision. Baptized into the Church of England in 1905, Singh afterward donned the robe of a Sadhu (holy man) in an endeavor to present Christianity in a Hindu form. (He disappeared in April 1929, while undertaking a strenuous work in Tibet.)

1943 - German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'The man who finds God in his earthly happiness...does not lack reminder that earthly things are transient...and...there will be times when he can say in all sincerity, "I wish I were home."'

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987

Sports:

1898 - Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph).

1932 - Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game.

1961 - For 2nd consecutive year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year.

1983 - NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak.

1994 - Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Compiled by Ramesh C. Reddy

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