December 31 Wikipedia featured article

The Eisenhower dollar is a one-dollar coin issued from 1971 to 1978 by the United States Mint. Authorized by law on December 31, 1970, it was the first US dollar coin minted since 1935, the last year of the Peace dollar. Designed by Frank Gasparro, the coin's obverse depicts President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who died in March 1969. Proposals in Congress to honor him on a coin led to a dispute over whether the new coin was to contain silver. In 1970,...

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On this day: December 31

December 31: Hogmanay in Scotland 2008 Times Square Ball 405 or 406 – The Vandals, Alans and Suebians crossed the Rhine River to begin an invasion of Gaul. 1857 – Queen Victoria selected Ottawa, then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada. 1907 – Times Square in New York City held its first New Year's Eve celebrations with the ball drop (2008 version pictured). 1972 – Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente...

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December 30 Wikipedia featured article

"No Me Queda Más" ("There's Nothing Left for Me") is a song by American recording artist Selena for her fourth studio album, Amor Prohibido (1994). Written by Ricky Vela and produced by Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla, it was released as the third single from the album in October 1994 by EMI Latin. It is a downtempo mariachi and pop ballad that portrays a woman who wishes the best for her former lover despite her own agony. Praised by music critics for its raw emotion, "No Me Queda Más" was one of the most successful singles of Selena's career,...

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On this day: December 30

December 30: Rizal Day in the Philippines (1896) Castillo de San Marcos 1702 – Carolina colonial governor James Moore abandoned the siege against the Castillo de San Marcos (pictured) at St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, and retreated to Charles Town in disgrace. 1853 – The United States purchased approximately 29,600 sq mi (77,000 km2) of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande from Mexico for $10 million. 1903...

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December 29 Wikipedia featured article

King, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Quebec Conference The Montreal Laboratory in Montreal, Canada, was established by the National Research Council of Canada during World War II to undertake nuclear research in collaboration with the United Kingdom. After the Fall of France, some French scientists escaped to Britain with their stock of heavy water, and joined the British Tube Alloys project to build an atomic bomb. In 1942, it was decided to...

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On this day: December 29

December 29: Independence Day in Mongolia (1911) Tian Tan Buddha 1170 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England. 1891 – Physical education teacher James Naismith introduced a game in Springfield, Massachusetts, with thirteen rules and nine players on each team that he called "Basket Ball". 1911 – Sun Yat-sen was elected in Nanjing as the Provisional President of the Republic...

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December 28 Wikipedia featured article

Pain fitzJohn (died 1137) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and administrator, one of King Henry I of England's "new men", the ones who owed their positions and wealth to the king. Pain's family originated in Normandy, but there is little to suggest that he had many ties there, and he appears to have spent most of his career in England and the Welsh Marches. A son of a minor nobleman, he rose to become an important royal official during Henry's reign. In 1115 he was rewarded with marriage to an heiress, thereby gaining control of the town of Ludlow...

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On this day: December 28

December 28: Day of the Holy Innocents (Western Christianity) A pair of huia 893 – An earthquake destroyed the city of Dvin, Armenia, causing about 30,000 casualties. 1768 – Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom in the new capital at Thonburi, present-day Thailand. 1907 – The last confirmed sighting of the extinct huia took place in the Tararua Ranges, North Island, New Zealand. 1973 – U.S. President Richard...

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December 27 Wikipedia featured article

Ficus rubiginosa, the Port Jackson fig, is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia. Beginning as a seedling that grows on other plants (hemiepiphyte) or rocks (lithophyte), it matures into a tree 30 m (100 ft) high and nearly as wide with a yellow-brown buttressed trunk. The leaves are oval and glossy green and measure from 4 to 19.3 cm (1 1⁄2–7 1⁄2 in) long and 1.25 to 13.2 cm (1⁄2–5 1⁄4 in)...

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On this day: December 27

December 27 Cave of Swallows 1657 – Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. 1831 – Aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin left Plymouth, England, on what became a historic expedition to South America that made his name as a naturalist. 1916 – German Togoland, occupied by the Allies in World War I was partitioned between Britain and France. 1966...

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December 26 Wikipedia featured article

Tropical Storm Vamei was a Pacific tropical cyclone, the last storm of the 2001 Pacific typhoon season. On December 26 the storm developed into a tropical depression about 230 km (145 mi) east of Singapore in the South China Sea at 1.4° N, 156 km (97 mi) north of the equator. This was the first recorded occurrence of a tropical cyclone developing near the equator, which had previously been considered impossible because...

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On this day: December 26

December 26: Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries; St. Stephen's Day (Western Christianity); Kwanzaa begins in Canada and the United States Flannan Isles Lighthouse 1776 – American Revolutionary War: In the predawn hours, George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack against the Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton. 1871 – Thespis, the first comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, made its debut at the...

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December 25 Wikipedia featured article

Hebron Church is a mid-19th century Lutheran church in Intermont, Hampshire County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It was founded in 1786 as Great Capon Church by German settlers in the Cacapon River Valley, making it the first Lutheran church west of the Shenandoah Valley. The congregation worshiped in a log church, which initially served both Lutheran and Reformed denominations. In 1821, records and sermons transitioned from German to English....

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On this day: December 25

December 25: Christmas (Gregorian calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day (Pakistan) Emperor Hirohito 1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, although he still faced rebellions over the following years and was not secure on his throne until after 1072. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: At night, George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack against the Hessian...

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December 24 Wikipedia featured article

Maya Angelou Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies include racism, identity, family, and travel. Angelou (1928–2014), an African-American writer, achieved critical acclaim for her first of seven autobiographies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). That book and the second in the series, Gather Together in My Name (1974), are about the lives of Black women in America. Her autobiographies all have the same structure, a narrative of how she...

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On this day: December 24

December 24: Christmas Eve (Gregorian calendar); Hanukkah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2016) Earthrise as seen by the crew of Apollo 8 759 – Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu departed for Chengdu, staying with his fellow poet Pei Di, where he composed poems about life in his thatched cottage. 1871 – Aida, one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, made its debut in Cairo, Egypt. 1953 – On New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge was damaged...

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December 23 Wikipedia featured article

Richard Dannatt (born 23 December 1950) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as the Constable of the Tower of London from August 2009 to July 2016. He was commissioned into the Green Howards in 1971, and his first tour of duty was in Belfast as a platoon commander. During his second tour of duty, Dannatt was awarded the Military Cross. He commanded 4th Armoured Brigade in 1994 during its peace operations in Bosnia. In 1999 he simultaneously...

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On this day: December 23

December 23: Night of the Radishes in Oaxaca City, Mexico; The Emperor's Birthday in Japan; Festivus Coelacanth (preserved specimen) 583 – Yohl Ik'nal acceded to the throne of the Maya city-state of Palenque. 1793 – French Revolution: The Royalist counterrevolutionary army was decisively defeated in the Battle of Savenay, although fighting continued in the War in the Vendée for years afterward. 1916 – First World War: Allied forces gained a...

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December 22 Wikipedia featured article

Andrew Sledd (1870–1939) was an American theologian, university professor and university president. A native of Virginia, he was ordained as a Methodist minister after earning his master's degree; he later earned a doctorate at Yale. After teaching for several years, Sledd became the last president of the University of Florida at Lake City from 1904 to 1905, and the first president of what is now the University of Florida from 1905 to 1909. He was...

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On this day: December 22

December 22 President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan 1216 – Pope Honorius III issued the papal bull Religiosam vitam to establish the Dominican Order. 1769 – Having been soundly defeated in battle, the Qing dynasty agreed to terms of truce, ending the Sino-Burmese War. 1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel, connecting New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey, opened. 1988 – Brazilian unionist and environmental activist Chico Mendes was murdered at his Xapuri...

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December 21 Wikipedia featured article

Film poster Lieutenant Kijé is music by Sergei Prokofiev originally written to accompany the film of the same name, produced by the Belgoskino film studios in Leningrad and released in 1934 (poster pictured). It was his first attempt at film music, and his first commission from within the Soviet Union; he had lived abroad since the 1917 October Revolution. In the early days of sound cinema, among the distinguished composers ready to write film...

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On this day: December 21

December 21: December solstice (10:44 UTC, 2016), Yule Emma Goldman 1124 – Lamberto Scannabecchi was elected Pope and took the name Honorius II. 1844 – The Rochdale Pioneers, usually considered the first successful co-operative enterprise, opened their store in Rochdale, England, and formed the basis for the modern co-operative movement. 1919 – After serving two years in prison for encouraging people to resist military conscription, anarchist...

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On this day: December 20

December 20 Experimental Breeder Reactor I 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. 1951 – Experimental Breeder Reactor I (pictured) near Arco, Idaho, US, became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced sufficient electricity to illuminate four...

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