Today in History!!!
 

1791
The Bill of Rights, the first 10 commandments to the U.S. Constitution, took effect following ratification by Virginia.

1890
Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, S.D., during a clash with Indian police.

1938
Ground was broken for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.

1939
The movie "Gone With the Wind" had its world premiere in Atlanta.

1944
Bandleader Glenn miller's U.S. Army plane disappeared over the English Channel.

1961
Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli Court.

1966
Movie producer Walt Disney died at age 65.

1989
A popular uprising that led to the downfall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu began in Romania.

2003
The late Sen. Strom Thurmond's family ackowledged Essie Mae Washington-Williams' claim that she was Thrumond's illigitimate mixed-race daughter.

2004
American telecommunications giants Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced they would merge in a $35 billion deal.

2005
Millions of Iraqis turned out to choose a parliament in a mostly peaceful election.

2009
The Washington D.C. City Council voted to legalize same-sex marriage

2010
Tablefor5 created this thread. It failed.

There are only so many things that have happened on this day in history.

wait until tomorrow. i bet there will be new things that happen on this day in history.

whoa.

awww are you sticking up for me?

I <3 you!!!

December 17
 

1843 - A Christmas Carol first published
1903 - Wright brothers' first successful flight

Dec 17th
 

1933
In the first NFL Championship game, the Chicago Bears defeated the New York Giants 23-21 at Wrigley Field.

1944
The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of excluding japanese-americans from the west coast.

1957
The United States successfully test-fired the Atlas incontinental ballistic missile for the first time.

1969
An estimated 50 million viewers watched singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky on NBC's "Tonight Show."

1975
Lynette "squeaky" Fromme was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Gerald R. Ford (she was released Aug 2009)

1989
The animated TV series "The Simpsons" premiered on Fox.

1992
President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari signed the North American Free Trade Agreement in seperate ceremonies.

1996
Kofi Annan Ghana became the United Nations secretary-general.

2004
President George W. Bush signed into law the largest overhaul of U.S. intelligence-gathering in 50 years.

2005
President George W. Bush acknowledged he'd personally authorized a secret eavesdropping program in the U.S. following Sept 11.

On this day...
 

Carl Sagan died (Dec 20, 1996)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lm6pEhykhs

Uhm, yeah. You're not homeschooling your kids are you??

so much for the seperation of church and state:rolleyes:

December 20

1860 – South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War.
1917 – The Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, was established by a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin.
1955 – Cardiff was proclaimed as the capital of Wales.
1973 – Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assassinated by a bomb planted by members of the Basque nationalist and separatist organisation ETA.
1987 – An estimated 4,000 people were killed when the Philippine-registered passenger ferry MV Do?a Paz (pictured) sank after colliding with an oil tanker on the Tablas Strait, the deadliest ferry disaster in history.