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Monthly Archives: December 2019
December 15, 1992
On December 15, 1992, the CEO of the IBM company, John Akers, announced it would eliminate 25 thousand employees in the coming year. When the employees panicked, he quickly responded and said he didn’t mean eliminate, he meant terminate. He … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Apple, eliminating, employees, firing, IBM, terminating
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December 14, 1799
On December 14, 1799 First American President George Washington died after a very, brief illness. What killed him? No one is sure. On December 13th he was healthy and on December 14th he was dead. He was seen by his … Continue reading
Posted in 18th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged and then he died, blood-letting, deaths, enemas, George Washington, medicine
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December 13, 1988
On December 13, 1988, a bankruptcy judge in Columbia, South Carolina, ordered that the assets of the PTL (Praise The Lord) television ministry be sold to a Toronto real estate developer for $65 million. Turns out that Jim and Tammy … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged canadians, christians, God, Jim Bakker, Praise The Lord, PTL Club, South Carolina, Tammy Faye Bakker, televangelists
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December 12, 1955
On December 12, 1955, British engineer Christopher Cockerell patented the first hovercraft. It is not true that he named the first hovercraft “A Légpárnásom Tele Van Angolnákkal”.
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Christopher Cockerell, hovercraft, Hungarian, inventions, my hovercraft is full of eels, patents
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December 11, 1972
On December 11, 1972 Astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 lunar mission became the last two people to walk on the Moon. Their footprints and the initials of Gene Cernan’s daughter are still there. Yes, the … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, moon, NASA, nutjobs
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December 10, 1932
On December 10, 1932, Australia conceded defeat in the Great Emu War. The giant, six-foot tall flightless birds were damaging the crops of the farmers of the Campion district in Western Australia and the government sent the army in to … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Army, Australia, Don't send a boy, Emu, Great Emu War, war
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December 9, 1640
On December 9, 1640, settler and local smart-ass, Hugh Bewitt, was banished from the Puritan Massachusetts Colony when he declared himself free of original sin. He claimed that all the sins he committed were copies of other people’s sins. The … Continue reading
Posted in 17th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged banishment, can't take a joke, Hugh Bewitt, Massachusetts Colony, original sin, puritans, sin
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December 8, 877
On December 8, 877, Louis the Stammerer, the son of Charles the Bald, was crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom. As is evident from their le sobriquet, the rulers and leaders of countries in the Dark Ages didn’t get … Continue reading
Posted in 9th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged Charles the Bald, Dark Ages, Donald Trump, Louis the Stammerer, nicknames
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December 7, 1968
On December 7, 1968, Richard Dodd of Winamac, Indiana returned an overdue book to the University of Cincinnati’s medical library. Nothing strange there. Oh, his great-grandfather had checked it out in 1823 when he was a medical student at the … Continue reading