First state birth registration law enacted (Georgia), 1823
War in Indochina, 1946
Climbers reached summit of Vinson Massif, Antarctica, 1966
Apollo 17 splashed down, 1972
“The Man with the Golden Gun” released in the US, 1974
Intelsat 4 F-3 (US) launched, 1971
Cosmos 1614 (USSR) (unmanned space shuttle) launched, 1984
“A Christmas Carol” published, 1843
First female artificial heart transplant (Mary Lund), 1985
Henry II became the English Sovereign, 1154
Association of American Sculptors and Painters formed, 1911
Benjamin Smith Barton, botanist, died, 1815
Publication of “Poor Richard, An Almanack” announced, 1732
US Poet Laureate selection authorized, 1985
President Eisenhower’s Xmas peace message “from space”, 1958
“The Music Man” opened on Broadway, 1957
Emily Bronte, English novelist (“Wuthering Heights”), died, 1848
Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, died, 1915
Walter Williams, last living Civil War veteran (aged 117), died, 1959
“American Crisis” (Thomas Paine) published, 1776
Britain agreed to return Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty by 1997, 1984
Nelson Rockefeller sworn in as US vice president, 1974
Norman Thomas, six time Socialist party presidential candidate, died, 1968
South Carolina opposed the Tariff of Abominations, 1828