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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 6th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 6, 343, the man we have come to know as Santa Claus died at the age of 73 in Myra, part of the Roman Empire in what is now South Western Turkey. On December 6, 1884, the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was completed. On December 6, 1922, The Irish Free State was a state established as a Dominion of the British Commonwealth of…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 5th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 5, 63 BC, Roman politician and famed orator Cicero delivered the 4th of his famous Catiline Orations to the Roman Senate, warning of a plot to overthrow the Roman government. On December 5, 1831, former President of the US, John Quincy Adams, took his seat in the House of Representatives as a Congressman. On December 5, 1847, Jefferson Finis Davis…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 4th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 4, 1619, 38 British settlers landed from the ship, Margaret (out of Bristol, England) along the North shore of the James River in Virginia in order to found a new town in the Virginia Colony called Berkeley Hundred. On December 4, 1791, the first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, was published. On December 4, 1829, the British…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 3rd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 3, 1775, the Alfred, a merchant ship purchased by the Continental Congress was commissioned under Captain Dudley Saltonstall and became the first to fly what would become the American Flag. On December 3, 1800, the Electoral College tallied votes in the Presidential election and found the two main contenders, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, were tied. On December 3, 1910,…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 2nd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 2, 1804, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in about a thousand years. On December 2, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte shocked the world as he crowned himself Emperor of the French by taking the crown from the Pope and plopping it on his own head. On December 2, 1927, Henry Ford…