This Week in History

DECEMBER 1

Sean Boyle was born.

Johanna O’Connor was born.

Julia Dionne was born.

1824 – The presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority.

1998 – Exxon and Mobil agreed to merge, creating the world’s largest corporation.

DECEMBER 2

Olivia Becker was born.

Mike Scala was born.

1980 – Sister Maura Clark, a Belle Harbor native and Stella Maris HS grad, serving as a missionary in El Salvador, was murdered by members of the military of El Salvador.

DECEMBER 3

Barbara King was born.

Diane Cardwell was born.

Bob-O Gates was born.

1833 – Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.

1967 – Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant.

DECEMBER 4

1783 – George Washington delivered his farewell address to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

1993 – Rock musician and composer Frank Zappa died at age 52.

DECEMBER 5

Dan Guarino was born.

1791 – Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria, at age 35.

1933 – The 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing prohibition, was ratified.

DECEMBER 6

Tori Dresch was born.

Sophia Skeans was born.

1884 – Construction of the Washington Monument was completed.

1973 – Gerald Ford was sworn in as vice president, replacing Spiro T. Agnew.

DECEMBER 7

Heidi Woolover was born.

1941 – The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

2002 – Iraq formally declared to the UN that it had no weapons of mass destruction.

DECEMBER 8

Mary Heslin Reed was born.

Rachel Bernstein was born.

1941 – The U.S. entered World War ll

1980 – John Lennon, former member of the Beatles, was shot and killed in New York City by a deranged fan.