Browsing: December 11

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on December 11th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On December 11, 629, the Prophet of Allah and founder of the Muslim religion, Muhammad, led an army of 10,000 converts to Islam into Mecca and conquered the city with minimal casualties. On December 11, 1941, dictators Adolf Hitler of Germany and Benito Mussolini of Italy made an enormous blunder, perhaps one that cost them the World War II, when they declared…

A Brief History On December 11, 2009, Rovio Entertainment from Finland released Angry Birds, a video game that took the world by storm.  While Pong was the first widely released video game back in 1972, other rudimentary games were invented as early as 1947 and 1958, although not commercially successful. Digging Deeper Since Pong invaded our living rooms, many other video games have been released, some with numerous spin-offs or progressive editions.  We list some of the most popular games for you to tell us what video game is the greatest.  (You are welcome to nominate a game we have…

A Brief History On December 11, 2012, an Alawite village in Syria, Aqrab, was the scene of horrific tragedy as terrorist bombs went off and killed about 125 people and injured an additional 200.  Known as the Aqrab Massacre, this sad series of events were but a smaller part in the ongoing Syrian Civil War that began in 2011.  Other estimates of fatalities in the Massacre range up to 300 dead.  In the West, the Islamic religion is often portrayed as a monolithic entity, and when differences in Islamic theology are recognized it is usually in the context of the…

A Brief History On December 11, 2017, New York City once again became the target of an Islamic radical terrorist, this time an immigrant from Bangladesh.  Luckily, the pipe bomb used in the attack did not explode properly, leaving the suspect with minor injuries (burns) and 3 innocent people with “headaches and ringing in the ears.”  It could have been so much worse!  President Trump acknowledged the incident as justification for his anti-immigration platform, saying, “There have now been two terrorist attacks in New York City in recent weeks carried out by foreign nationals here on green cards. The first…

A Brief History On December 11, 2005, racial tensions exploded into violence in the Sidney suburb of Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia, with rioting by White Australians against anyone they perceived to be of Lebanese descent.  The riots lasted a few days, and spread to surrounding suburbs. Digging Deeper Australia, not unlike the United States, was originally settled by the people known today as Aborigines.  When British explorers (17th Century) and colonists (18th Century) settled the giant island continent, the indigenous people declined from as many as a million people to a fraction of their previous numbers, mostly due to…