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prelude t o t he American Civil War. chewing gum.

December 21, 1937 - Snow Whit e premiered in December 30, 1803 - The St ars and St ripes flag
t heat ers. was raised over New Orleans as t he Unit ed
St at es t ook formal possession of t he t errit ory
December 23, 1948 - Hideki Tojo was hanged for
of Louisiana, an area of 885,000 square miles,
war crimes. He had been Japanese prime
nearly doubling t he size of t he U.S. The
minist er from 1941-44. He was hanged along
t errit ory had been purchased from France for
wit h six ot her Japanese wart ime milit ary
approximat ely $15 million.
leaders at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, wit h t he
sent ence carried out by t he U.S. 8t h Army. December 30, 1922 - The USSR (Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics) was est ablished t hrough
December 24, 1818 - Franz Joseph Gruber
t he confedrat ion of Russia, Byelorussia,
composed "Silent Night ".
Ukraine and t he Transcaucasian Federat ion.
December 24, 1990 - On Christ mas Eve, t he
December 30, 1924 - Edwin Hubble announces
bells of St . Basil's Cat hedral in Moscow rang for
t he exist ence of ot her galact ic syst ems. Yes,
t he first t ime since t he deat h of Lenin.
t he Hubble t elescope was lat er names aft er
December 25, 0 - Jesus Christ is born him.

in a lit t le t own in Bet hlehem. December 31, 1781 - The first bank in t he U.S.,
t he Bank of Nort h America, received it s chart er
December 25, 1868 - President Andrew Johnson
from t he Confederat ion Congress. It opened on
grant ed general amnest y t o all t hose involved
January 7, 792, in Philadelphia.
in t he Civil War.
December 31, 1879 Thomas Edison provided
December 26 - January 1 - Kwanzaa, an African
t he first public demonst rat ion of his elect ric
American family observance est ablished in
incandescent lamp at his laborat ory in Menlo
1966 celebrat ing t radit ional African harvest
Park, New Jersey.
fest ivals, focusing on family unit y, wit h a
communit y harvest feast on t he sevent h day.
Kwanzaa means "first fruit " in Swahili.
December 26, 1865 - James Mason invent s t he
coffee percolat or.

December 27, 1932 - Radio Cit y Music Hall
opens in New York Cit y

December 27, 1945 - The Int ernat ional
Monet ary Fund was est ablished in Washingt on,
D.C.

December 28, 1869 - William F. Semple pat ent ed