This Day In History:

Indigo wrote:

1958- The John Birch society is founded in Indianapolis. For those who don't know: http://www.jbs.org/

Just as I clicked on that link, I remembered who they were. Well, now whoever is monitoring my internet activities knows that I've been on the John Birtch society and the International Communist League—Fourth Internationalist Spartacist League websites over the course of the past 24 hours. They can have fun with that one.

More December 9 goodness:

1937 – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing. We all know what happens next...
1941 – Many countries declare war on one another in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I posted a link to a site that has a complete list for those interested here (or you could go back a page, whichever works for you).
[Cold War/Red Scare is FUN!]
1950 – Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 – General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
[/Cold War/Red Scare is FUN!]
1961 – The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges. Burn in hell, Nazi scum.
1965 – The Kecksburg UFO incident: a fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh
2003 – 2003 Red Square Bombing
2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency. Way to go, man, way to fragging go and embarrass yourself and your party, and in the process giving more ammunition for the Right.

Also, Peter Kropotkin was born in 1842.

10 December

1992, the IRA explode two small bombs in a London shopping centre, injuring 11.

Is that just the way it is or are Nobel Peace prizes handed out on today's date for a reason?

December 11

1972, a bomb attack on a furniture shop on the Shankill Road in Belfast killed four Protestant civilians, including two children.

WHAT HAPPENED IN 13 DECEMBER

2003: Saddam Husein, former Iraqi president, captured near Tikrit in " Operation Red Dawn ".
1992: I was born
1945: Irma Grese, Elisabeth Volkenrath (both of them were Nazi's concentration camp supervisors) and Commander Josef Kramer were executed
1939: Battle of the River Plate, German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZ Achilles
1937: Nanking Massacre begun

Thank you Indigo

Quote:

Looks like you share it with John Jay, Frank Sinatra, and Bob Barker.

hahaha, seems yes comrade, I'm enjoy to share with them

December 13
1965 - Sukarno legalized "sanering policy" (devaluating money value) to contend inflation. This policy means that the value of Rp 1.000 = Rp 1. This make the inflation in Indonesia getting worse (until 650%).



1949 - Central Institute for Coordination a.k.a Mossad was founded

December 14

1825 – Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.

1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.

1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission. This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.

2004 – Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.

December 15:
1941-AFL starts no strike during wartime industry policy.
1970-USSR lands on Venus.
1978-USA recognizes the PRC and cuts off ties with the Taiwan.

December 15

1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. Yaaaayyyyy!
1939 – Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Booooooooooo!
1961 - Adolf Eichmann receives his death sentence. This comes days after he receives a guilty verdict on 15 counts earlier in the month. He would be executed about 5 months later.
1970 – South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korean Strait killing 308. Damn it South Korea, why do you have such trouble keeping ships afloat?
2005 – Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry. Frak you, Latvia.

1923 - Birth of Valentin Varrennikov, Soviet military leader and statesman who would go on to fight in the Great Patriotic War, lead Soviet forces in Afghanistan, and participate in the attempted coup against Gorbachëv of 1991.
1991- Death of famous Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev.

December 17

1978 - the IRA carried out a series of bomb attacks on cities in England.

December 16 I think was Frank Zappa's birthday. He would have been 70. Despite turning into a quasi-libertarian nut at the end, anyone who wrote "Who Are The Brain Police?" can't be all bad.

December 17, I got nothin'.

December 18, 1878 is what some claim was Stalin's actual date of birth. He apparently changed it to fit in with his 50th birthday celebration in 1929.

I thought his birthday was December 21st.

There is a species of "Stalin birthers" who claim otherwise. Check ye Wiki for more information.

Hmm I always acknowledge his birthday on the 21st. Even Craig Ferguson did last year and he talked about how Stalin shares a birthday with Andy Dick.

Shit almost forgot.

1879-Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili better known as Joseph Stalin was born.