• 43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed.
• 1476 Vlad III Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
• 1703 Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England (NS 7 Dec) – thousands killed, Royal Navy loses 13 ships and around 1 500 seamen.
• 1778 British explorer Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).
• 1789 First national Thanksgiving in America.
• 1835 HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand.
• 1859 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale Of Two Cities” is published in literary periodical “All the Year Round”.
• 1865 “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is published in America.
• 1867 Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
• 1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt
• 1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
• 1941 Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France
• 1942 “Casablanca” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergmanpremieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1943).
• 1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie “Girl Crazy” released
• 1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria
• 1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
• 1948 Firast polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras for next 15 years.
• 1962 Fab Four have their first recording session under name The Beatles.
• 1967 Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450.
• 1972 Bomb explosion at the Film Centre Cinema, in O’Connell Bridge House in Dublin.
• 1974 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal.
• 1976 Ringo releases “Hey Baby” single.
• 1976 Sex Pistols release their debut single “Anarchy In The UK”• 1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY.
• 1978 Christina Crawford autobiography “Mommie Dearest” reaches best-seller status.
• 1979 International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
• 1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6 800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
• 1985 Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3 000 000.
• 1989 Comores coup under Bob Benard.
• 2004 Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
• 2007 “Like You’ll Never See Me Again” single released by Alicia Keys (NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Music Video, Outstanding Song 2008, Billboard Song of the Year 2008).
• 2012 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground.
• 2012 The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion.
• 2013 Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin’s show “Up Late with Alec Baldwin” is cancelled after only five episodes.
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Source: www.onthisday.com
