Monthly Archives: December 2014

December 11, 1998

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1998 – The ‘Mars Climate Orbiter’ blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, and was apparently destroyed because the scientists in charge of plotting it course had failed to convert English measures to metric values. This is one … Continue reading →

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December 10, 1906

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1906, US President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese and Russian governments stated they didn’t have a choice, as that crazy, bespectacled American rushed into their treaty negotiations swinging a large … Continue reading →

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December 9, 1907

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1907, Christmas Seals went on sale for the second time, in the Wilmington, DE post office. The first time was at the Juneau, Alaskan Territory post office in 1906 and the purchasers were offered the option of clubbing their own or having one of the postal workers do it … Continue reading →

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December 8, 1854

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. This is the official doctrine that held that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived. They believed this was because Mary’s parents, Joe and Anne Cohen-Levi, only performed sex the … Continue reading →

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December 7, 1925

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1925, Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds. One of the sports announcers broadcasting the event remarked that he might be able to swim even faster if he had some ‘real’ incentive, like a crocodile … Continue reading →

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December 6, 1983

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1983, the Philippines experienced the beginning of the “Lean Christmas”. The Philippines were in the midst of a foreign exchange crisis and the country was experiencing shortages in everything, except for poverty. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos told his people they should have a lean Christmas without luxury items, such … Continue reading →

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December 5, 1766

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1766, James Christie, the founder of the famous Christie auctioneers, held his first sale in London, England. It went a little something like this: “Who’ll give me a ten pounds? Ten pounds bid, now twenty? Now twenty, maybe thirty? Thirty pounds to the dandy in red, Forty, who’ll drop … Continue reading →

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December 4, 1977

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1977, Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowned himself ruler of the Central African Empire in a ceremony that was believed to cost more than $20 million dollars ($100 million in today’s dollars). Before he became emperor of the Central African Empire, in 1966, he overthrew the president of the Central African Republic … Continue reading →

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December 3, 1931

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1931 Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time. It wouldn’t be until 1975 that the famous jingle and TV ad “plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is” would be heard and adolescent boys would immediately turn it into a scatological reference to irritate their mothers.

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December 2, 1952

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1952 the first televised human birth was shown to the public on KOA-TV Denver, CO. Young boys in Denver watched and went EWWWWWWWW! while the girls immediately swore off sex for life.

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