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What happened in history on this day: December 12?
On December 12 in ...
- 1776 - The Continental Congress authorizes Robert Morris to borrow money for the navy.
- 1787 - Pennsylvania is second state to ratify US Constitution.
- 1791 - The Bank of the United States opens for business.
- 1800 - Washington, District of Columbia, is established as capital of USA.
- 1822 - US government officially recognizes Mexico as an independent nation.
- 1846 - American chargé d'affaires Benjamin Alden Bidleck signs a treaty with the government of President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera of New Grenada, which in part guarantees to the US exclusive right of transit across the Isthmus of Panama.
- 1860 - Philip F. Thomas of Maryland is appointed Treasury Secretary.
- 1862 - Battle of Dumfries, Virginia, CSA.
- 1862 - Two electrically-detonated underwater torpedoes sink the USS Cairo ironclad battleship in the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, CSA.
- 1878 - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing Saint Louis Dispatch.
- 1901 - Marconi receives first transatlantic radio signal, England to US.
- 1906 - Oscar Straus is appointed US Secretary of Commerce.
- 1914 - The New York Stock Exchange re-opens (was closed four months). The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops from 71.42 to 54, a drop of 24 percent.
- 1916 - The USA purchases the Danish West Indies, for US$25 million.
- 1917 - Reverend Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska.
- 1937 - Japanese aircraft shell and sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologizes and eventually pays US $2.2 million in reparations).
- 1937 - NBC and RCA sends first mobile-TV vans onto the streets of New York.
- 1946 - United Nations accepts six Manhattan (New York) blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Junior.
- 1947 - United Mine Workers union withdraws from AFL.
- 1957 - Major Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo.
- 1957 - US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond).
- 1961 - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36.
- 1961 - Martin Luther King Junior and 700 demonstrators arrested in Albany, Georgia, USA.
- 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1963 - Frank Sinatra Junior is returned 53 hours after being kidnapped, after payment of $240,000 ransom.
- 1967 - US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit.
- 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1975 - Sara Jane Moore pleads guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford.
- 1980 - Apple Computer becomes a publicly held company, selling 4.6 million shares at US$22 per share. More than 40 Apple employees and investors become instant millionaires. This is the largest initial public offering in the US since Ford's in 1956.
- 1980 - American oil tycoon Armand Hammer pays US$5.12 million at auction for a notebook containing writings by artist Leonardo da Vinci, written around 1508. The price is the highest paid for a manuscript to date.
- 1980 - USA's copyright law amended to include computer programs.
- 1982 - US$9.8 million in cash stolen from money transport car in New York City, New York.
- 1983 - A dump truck with 330kg of high explosives crashes through the US Embassy gate in Kuwait City, exploding, killing six. Then five bombs detonate by remote control at other locations in Kuwait. Total 7 dead, 84 injured.
- 1985 - Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, killing 256, 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai.
- 1988 - New York City Subway system adds new stations (the Z line).
- 1990 - US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks.
- 1990 - US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell, leaves Kuwait.
- 1991 - Orion Pictures files for bankruptcy protection in the USA.
- 1995 - Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the US flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 66 votes).
- 1997 - Federal judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort US$40 million from him.
- 1997 - SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Florida, freeing two young hostages.
- 2007 - The US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Canada, and the Swiss National Bank announce a joint plan to ease liquidity crisis in global money markets.
- 2008 - Former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with allegedly running a $50 billion "Ponzi scheme", among the biggest fraud cases ever.
Births on December 12
- 1915 - Birth of Francis Albert Sinatra AKA Frank Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA; singer/actor (old blue eyes/chairman of board, actor (From Here to Eternity), singer ("Strangers in the Night", "My Way").
- 1918 - Birth of Joe Williams in Cordele, Georgia, USA; jazz singer ("Everyday I Have the Blues").
- 1923 - Birth of Bob Barker in Darrington, Washington, USA; game show emcee (The Price is Right).
- 1924 - Birth of Edward I Koch in New York City, New York, USA; mayor (Democrat-New York, 1977-89), judge (People's Court).
- 1928 - Birth of Helen Frankenthaler in New York City, New York, USA; abstract expressionist artist (Arden).
- 1935 - Birth of Al Harrington in Pago Pago, American Samoa; actor (Ben Kokua - Hawaii Five-0).
- 1938 - Birth of Connie Francis in Newark, New Jersey, USA; singer/actress (Where the Boys Are).
- 1940 - Birth of Dionne Warwick in East Orange, New Jersey, USA; singer (Solid Gold, "Way to San Jose").
- 1941 - Birth of Terry Kirkman in Salina, Kansas, USA; rock vocalist/keyboardist (The Association).
- 1949 - Birth of Ricardo Luís Carreras in New York City, New York, USA; bantamweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1972).
- 1951 - Birth of Caren Kaye in New York City, New York, USA; actress (My Tutor, Blansky's Beauties).
- 1951 - Birth of Steven Alan Hawley in Ottawa, Kansas, USA; PhD/astronaut (STS 41-D, STS 61-C, STS 31, STS 82).
- 1952 - Birth of Cathy Rigby McCoy in Los Alamitos, California, USA; gymnast (Olympics-4th-1968, 1972).
- 1953 - Birth of Bruce Kulick in Brooklyn, New York, USA; rocker (Kiss - "Beth", "Rock and Roll All Nite").
- 1955 - Birth of Lenore Rittenhouse in Honolulu, Hawaii; LPGA golfer (1983 United Virginia Bank).
- 1957 - Birth of Sheila E[scovedo] in San Franciso, California, USA; disco drummer (Krushgrove, Holly Rock).
- 1958 - Birth of Sheree J Wilson in Rochester, Minnesota, USA; actress (Our Family Honor, Dallas).
- 1959 - Birth of Scott D Vangen in Granite Falls, Minnesota, USA; astronaut.
- 1962 - Birth of Holly Gagnier in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (One Life to Live).
- 1962 - Birth of Tracy Austin in Rolling Hills, California, USA; tennis pro (US Open 1979, 1981).
- 1963 - Birth of Teresa Blake in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; actress (Gloria Marsh - All My Children).
- 1965 - Birth of Laurie Grover-Tavares in Newark, New Jersey, USA; biathlete (Olympics-1994).
- 1966 - Birth of Cheryl Dickey in Houston, Texas, USA; 100 metre hurdler.
- 1968 - Birth of Tatianna in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy).
- 1970 - Birth of Jennifer Connelly in Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA; actress (Labyrinth, Rocketeer).
- 1970 - Birth of Madchen Amick in Reno, Nevada, USA; actress (Shelly Johnson - Twin Peaks).
- 1972 - Birth of Greg Randolph in Denver, Colorado, USA; road cyclist (Olympics-74th-1996).
- 1972 - Birth of Kara Williams; Miss Texas USA (1996).
- 1972 - Birth of Missy Francis in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Little House on the Prairie).
- 1975 - Birth of Mayim Winkelman Bialik in San Diego, California; actress (Blossom, Beaches).
- 1977 - Birth of Bridget Hall in Dallas, Texas; model (Ford).
- 1978 - Birth of Derrick Delmore in Camp Springs, Maryland; figure skater (1996 Grand Prix champion).
Deaths on December 12
- 1971 - David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at age 80.
- 1978 - Clifton Chenier, US accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at age 53.
- 1985 - Death of Anne Baxter at age 62 of a brain aneurism; actress (All About Eve movie, Olga, Queen of the Cossacks - Batman TV show, Myra - Marcus Welby TV show, Victoria - Hotel TV show, Love Boat TV show, Name of the Game TV show).
- 1991 - Ken Keltner, US baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at age 75.
- 1994 - Stuart Allen Roosa, astronaut (Apollo 14), dies of pancreatitis at age 46 (born 1933).
- 1998 - Death of Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (born 1930).
- 2006 - Death of Paul Arizin, American basketball player (born 1928).
- 2006 - Death of Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1917).
- 2008 - Death of Avery Dulles, American Roman Catholic Cardinal (born 1918).
- 2022 - Death of Stuart Margolin at age 82 of complications from pancreatic cancer in Staunton, Virginia, USA; actor (Evelyn "Angel" Martin - The Rockford Files TV show, Emmy award winner).
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