This Week in History

DECEMBER 11

Ellen Sullivan Sayles was born.

Jomar Legaspi was born.

1936 – King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of Britain for the woman he loved, Mrs. Wallis Simpson.

1941 – Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.

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.

1799 – George Washington, the first U.S. President, died at Mount Vernon.

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.