PHDecember 12, 1531: Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Commemorating the sighting in 1531 of the ****** Mary by Juan Diego on Tepayac hill outside Mexico City.
December 12, 1983: Cabbage ρá†ch Kids
The Cabbage Pätch Kids dolls are featured on the cover of Newsweekmagazine. The dolls were responsible for Black Friday riots at stores where shoppers were trampling each other to "adopt" them. The dolls would go on to set the record as the most successful new doll introduction in the history of the toy industry.
They were created in 1976 by Xavier Roberts using the German technique of needle molding from the 1800s. Instead of selling them, he allowed people to adopt them from Babyland General Hospital, which he ran from a renovated turn of the century medical facility.
December 12, 1941: World War II - Final Solution
Adolf Hitler declared the imminent liquidation of the Jewish race during a Reich Chancellery meeting with the highest ranking officials of the Nazi Party present. This marked a turning point when the Nazis went from propaganda and intimidation to extermination.
December 12, 1901: First Transatlantic Radio Signal
Broadcast from England to Newfoundland, by Guglielmo Marconi. The distance was about 2,200 miles (3,500 km). They used a 500-foot (150 meters) receiving antenna held aloft by a kite.
His detractors said this was impossible because the radio waves would not follow the curvature of the Earth and therefore transmission would be limited to about 200 miles. They were both wrong. Marconi was wrong because the radio waves did NOT follow the curvature of the Earth as he believed. And his detractors were wrong because it was possible to transmit radio waves that distance due to their bouncing off the ionosphere.
December 12, 2002: Iraq War
CIA Director George Tenet is said to have assured U.S. President George W. Bush that the evidence against Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction was a slam dunk. Bush would later declare "George Tenet did a superb job for America."
December 12, 1963: Kenya
The British colony declares its independence.
December 12, 1957: Elvis Presley
Portland, Oregon DJ Al Priddy is fired for playing Elvis Presley's version of White Christmas. The station management said, "it's not in the spirit we associate with Christmas."
December 12, 1952: First Nuclear Reactor Accident
The Chalk River nuclear plant in Canada experiences a melt down and explosion of its reactor core. Some 4,500 tons of radioactive water was found in the cellar of the building. This water was dumped in ditches about 1 mile (1600 meters) from the border of the Ottawa River. Future U.S. president Jimmy Carter, a U.S. Navy nuclear engineer at the time, was part of the cleanup crew. The facility suffered a second reactor accident in 1958.
It was also the first nuclear reactor outside of the U.S.
December 12, 1925: First U.S. Motel
Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo, California opens.
December 12, 2004: My Mom's Death
Mom died at exactly 1:45 AM
What does 12.12 means to you?
Commemorating the sighting in 1531 of the ****** Mary by Juan Diego on Tepayac hill outside Mexico City.
December 12, 1983: Cabbage ρá†ch Kids
The Cabbage Pätch Kids dolls are featured on the cover of Newsweekmagazine. The dolls were responsible for Black Friday riots at stores where shoppers were trampling each other to "adopt" them. The dolls would go on to set the record as the most successful new doll introduction in the history of the toy industry.
They were created in 1976 by Xavier Roberts using the German technique of needle molding from the 1800s. Instead of selling them, he allowed people to adopt them from Babyland General Hospital, which he ran from a renovated turn of the century medical facility.
December 12, 1941: World War II - Final Solution
Adolf Hitler declared the imminent liquidation of the Jewish race during a Reich Chancellery meeting with the highest ranking officials of the Nazi Party present. This marked a turning point when the Nazis went from propaganda and intimidation to extermination.
December 12, 1901: First Transatlantic Radio Signal
Broadcast from England to Newfoundland, by Guglielmo Marconi. The distance was about 2,200 miles (3,500 km). They used a 500-foot (150 meters) receiving antenna held aloft by a kite.
His detractors said this was impossible because the radio waves would not follow the curvature of the Earth and therefore transmission would be limited to about 200 miles. They were both wrong. Marconi was wrong because the radio waves did NOT follow the curvature of the Earth as he believed. And his detractors were wrong because it was possible to transmit radio waves that distance due to their bouncing off the ionosphere.
December 12, 2002: Iraq War
CIA Director George Tenet is said to have assured U.S. President George W. Bush that the evidence against Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction was a slam dunk. Bush would later declare "George Tenet did a superb job for America."
December 12, 1963: Kenya
The British colony declares its independence.
December 12, 1957: Elvis Presley
Portland, Oregon DJ Al Priddy is fired for playing Elvis Presley's version of White Christmas. The station management said, "it's not in the spirit we associate with Christmas."
December 12, 1952: First Nuclear Reactor Accident
The Chalk River nuclear plant in Canada experiences a melt down and explosion of its reactor core. Some 4,500 tons of radioactive water was found in the cellar of the building. This water was dumped in ditches about 1 mile (1600 meters) from the border of the Ottawa River. Future U.S. president Jimmy Carter, a U.S. Navy nuclear engineer at the time, was part of the cleanup crew. The facility suffered a second reactor accident in 1958.
It was also the first nuclear reactor outside of the U.S.
December 12, 1925: First U.S. Motel
Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo, California opens.
December 12, 2004: My Mom's Death
Mom died at exactly 1:45 AM
What does 12.12 means to you?
