This Week in History
DECEMBER 12
Sally Ann McVeigh was born.
2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the presidential election recount in Florida.
DECEMBER 13
Shane Gibbons was born.
Brother Robert Falcone was born.
Kalin Callaghan was born.
Allen Shaw was born.
John Hanning was born.
Lauren Heyer O’Keefe was born.
1913 – The Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after having been stolen two years earlier (August 1911) from the Louvre.
DECEMBER 14
Tommy K. McVeigh was born.
Anthony Martelli was born.
Joyce Mannochio Zoller was born.
Ellen Kaiven was born.
Joe Poehlman Jr. was born.
Stephanie Shapiro was born.
DECEMBER 15
Kevin Cashen was born.
Suzanne Valentine was born.
Tricia Loconte was born.
1939 – The movie “Gone With the Wind” premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
1944 – Band leader Glenn Miller disappeared in a plane crash over the English Channel.
DECEMBER 16
Elizabeth Hanna was born.
Stephen O’Sullivan was born.
Kevin Conlon was born.
Trisha McCann O’Malley was born.
1773 – The Boston Tea Party took place.
1944 – The Battle of the Bulge during World War II began in Belgium.
DECEMBER 17
Dylan Watton was born.
Gerard Pisano was born.
Kathleen Lalsie was born.
Denis Koufos was born.
Jerry Scannell was born.
Margaret Kohler was born.
1903 – Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
DECEMBER 18
Bridget Carson Scala was born.
Cindy Gold was born.
Irene Rocha was born.
Kelly O’Connor was born.
1956 – Japan was admitted to the United Nations.
2000 – George W. Bush received 271 votes in the delayed Electoral College balloting.
