On this day in history.

[leelai]

So so many disasters on black days, although one of our very bad bush fire days was called Ash Wednesday as it happened on the Christian Ash Wednesday .....

It is strange but quite good that a black day can also be a good day!

And I think Black Humour does fit in there somewhere!

 

[Richard Brown]

On the 30th November 1936, the Crystal Palace burned down. This post continues the theme introduced in the last 2 or 3 posts. Sent from my iPad using iPF

 

[The OB]

And of course the 30th of November is St. Andrew's day. But you knew that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew's_Day
Bless you boys and girls
Andrew


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[J. A.]

December 2, 1923: Greek soprano Maria Callas is born in New York City.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Callas

 

[J. A.]

December 3, 1888: Carl Zeiss, German maker of optical instruments, dies.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss

 

[The OB]

December 3, 1888: Carl Zeiss, German maker of optical instruments, dies.


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Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss

That company still makes arguably the best camera lenses and optics in the world.
Andrew


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[J. A.]

December 5 events:

1492: Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

1791: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) dies.

1901: Walt Disney is born.

1932: German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

1945: Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

1969: ARPANET network is established.

1993: The mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, is injured by a letter bomb.

 

[J. A.]

December 7, 1905: Gerard P. Kuiper (Gerrit Pieter Kuiper), astronomer, is born in Netherlands. The Kuiper belt is named after him.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Kuiper

 

[scifan57]

December 7, 1941; naval and air forces from the Empire of Japan attack the United States naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

Photo Credit: Wikipedia

 

[J. A.]

December 8, 1939: James Galway, Irish flute player, is born.






Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Galway

 

[J. A.]

December 11, 1792: Joseph Mohr (wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night") is born in Salzburg, Austria.

1803: Hector Berlioz, French composer, is born.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz

 

[J. A.]

December 13, 1915: Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens, German-Austrian actor, is born in Solln, Munich (Bavaria).




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curd_Jürgens

 

[zstairlessone]

It's still December 12 back here so....

In 1961 the first amateur/private citizen designed satellite was launched and reached orbit. it was launched 'piggyback' with another satellite. This private designed satellite broadcast the word 'Hi' in Morse Code (.... ..) 10 times each minute - or about once every 6 seconds, and made over 300 orbits before re-entering the atmosphere

 

[J. A.]

December 15, 1928: a boy named Friedrich Stowasser, later known as Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, Austrian artist, who later took on New Zealand citizenship, is born in Vienna.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedensreich_Hundertwasser

 

[J. A.]

December 16, 1917: Arthur Charles Clarke, British science fiction author, is born in Minehead, Somerset.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke