December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
Today would have been my father's 96th birthday. He died in July 2011. Happy Birthday, Dad.
NATIONAL NOODLE RING DAY
FEATURED — 1941
1941 – Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
1792 – France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state.
1936 – After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne.
1944 – The city of Toronto, Canada, is battered with its worst-ever snowfall on this day in 1944. Twenty-one people died as a result of the record storm, in which nearly 20 inches of snow fell in a single day.
1951 – New York Yankee center fielder and subsequent Hall of Fame inductee, Joe DiMaggio, announces his baseball retirement.
1961 – In Israel, Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes during WWII.
1971 – The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
1972 – Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) became the 11th and 12th (and last) men on the Moon.
1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1994 – In the largest Russian military offensive since the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks pour into the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya.
1997 – Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a United Nations climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement on a protocol to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases (the Kyoto Protocol); the protocol committed nations to roll back greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels.
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2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested in New York and charged with securities fraud in a massive $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
2012 – British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1725 – George Mason, American lawyer and politician (d. 1792)
1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (d. 1869)
1843 – Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
1882 – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1923 – Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-born American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013)
1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – Christina Onassis, American-born Greek/Argentine businesswoman, socialite, and heiress (d. 1988)
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
NATIONAL NOODLE RING DAY
FEATURED — 1941
1941 – Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
1792 – France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state.
1936 – After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne.
1944 – The city of Toronto, Canada, is battered with its worst-ever snowfall on this day in 1944. Twenty-one people died as a result of the record storm, in which nearly 20 inches of snow fell in a single day.
1951 – New York Yankee center fielder and subsequent Hall of Fame inductee, Joe DiMaggio, announces his baseball retirement.
1961 – In Israel, Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes during WWII.
1971 – The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
1972 – Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) became the 11th and 12th (and last) men on the Moon.
1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1994 – In the largest Russian military offensive since the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks pour into the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya.
1997 – Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a United Nations climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement on a protocol to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases (the Kyoto Protocol); the protocol committed nations to roll back greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels.
2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested in New York and charged with securities fraud in a massive $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
2012 – British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1725 – George Mason, American lawyer and politician (d. 1792)
1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (d. 1869)
1843 – Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
1882 – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1923 – Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-born American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013)
1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – Christina Onassis, American-born Greek/Argentine businesswoman, socialite, and heiress (d. 1988)
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
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