The Significance of December 11 in World History

In this video, we'll explore the significance of December 11 in World History.

December 11 is a day that has significance in many different parts of the world. We'll talk about its historical background, its impact on different cultures, and its importance in the modern world.

Whether you're a history lover or not, this video is a great way to learn more about December 11 and its importance in world history. Thanks for watching!

1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England)
1792 France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state
1816 Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union 1844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide in Hartford, Connecticut
1862 Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia begins between Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside
1866 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean; schooners Fleetwing, Vesta and the Henrietta, with NY playboy Gordon Bennett on board, leave Sandy Hook for the Scilly Isles (the Henrietta wins) 1872 Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback takes office as the first African American US Governor in Louisiana
1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity holds its 1st performance, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera “Iolanthe"
1902 The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products
1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC 1913 "Mona Lisa" recovered two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
1917 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot
1928 Buenos Aires police thwart assassination attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover - prevent anarchists from bombing his train
1936 Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson
1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
1946 Spain suspended from UN 1946 United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established by resolution 57(I) of the UN General Assembly
1954 USS Forrestal aircraft carrier christened in Newport News, Virginia
1961 JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1964 "Time" magazine calls Susan Sontag "one of Manhattan's brightest intellectuals" in a review of her groundbreaking essay "Notes on Camp”
1964 Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1967 Supersonic airliner prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
1971 The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed 1972 American Astronauts Eugene Cernan & Harrison 'Jack" Schmitt, a become 11th & 12th people on the Moon
1975 US 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
1980 "Magnum P.I." starring Tom Selleck premieres on CBS
1980 The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1981 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight; loses to Trevor Berbick by unanimous decision in 10 rounds at Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre, Nassau, Bahamas
1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
1997 Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
2001 The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
2008 Bernie Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme
2009 Tiger Woods announces an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
2012 British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world
2013 Pope Francis is named Time magazine's person of the year
2014 CIA Director John Brennan defends interrogation methods used after 9/11 but admits some methods were “abhorrent"
2017 Saudi Arabia announces an end to its 35 year ban on cinemas
2020 America's FDA authorizes the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
2020 US Supreme Court rejects lawsuit by Texas to overturn Jo Biden's election in four battleground states, endorsed by 17 Republican attorney generals
2022 NASA's Orion spacecraft returns to earth after completing Artemis I test flight around the moon in 25.5 days - record distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to carry humans
2022 US authorities announce that the Libyan man accused of making the bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103, Abu Agila Mas’ud, is now in US custody