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A December to remember: The historic events of the final month
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As we wrap up another year of political strife, individual sacrifices and community rebuilding, we usually never realize or even attempt to examiner how this final month of the year has affected our lives. While we say good-bye to one year and hello to another, this month of transition usually gets caught in the headlights, while we as a nation begin to plan for success, in the upcoming future.
Below is a listing of December woes that have led us to this historic year of Inauguration and the Presidential passing of the torch!
December:
1 – 1824; The first time America deferred to the 12th Amendment, due to an election for US President that didn’t see a candidate gain the necessary Electoral votes needed for victory. John Quincy Adams ended up bring victorious by House of Representative vote and placement, defeating Andrew Jackson and others. (Graph included below)
2 – 1930; President H. Hoover pleas for $150-million for public works program, to boost economy and jobs, due to Great Depression woes. (Sound familiar?)
1976; Fidel Castro becomes Cuban President.
1993; Colombian Drug Lord, Pablo Escobar, is shot and killed.
3 – 1818; Illinois becomes 21st state to be ratified.
4 – 1991; American Journalist hostage released (Terry Anderson) longest held American hostage held in Lebanon (Beirut)
1969; Black Panther Party members, Fred Hampton and Mac Clark shot and killed by Chicago police officers during early morning raids.
5 – 1955; Rosa Parks, along with E.D. Nixon, begins bus boycott with NAACP.
1933; End of Prohibition with Utah joining the ratified states becoming the 35th state to join solidifying the 21st Amendment that repealed the 18th Amendment. (75% of states’ needed for Constitutional Amendment for U.S.)
6 – 1998; Election of Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela (still in office)
1973; US House of Representatives vote 387-35 to affirm Gerald Ford as the 38th President of the United States, replacing Richard Nixon based on his resignation.
(21st Amendment of the US Constitution)
1865; Ratification of the 13th Amendment, to the US Constitution, effectively ending Slavery.
7 – 1988; Palestinian Prime Minister Yasser Arafat recognizes Israel and its existence.
1787; Delaware first state to ratify the US Constitution
8 – 1993; NAFTA signed into law by President Clinton (North American Free Trade Agreement)
2008; Kirsty Williams becomes the first female head of a major political party in Wales, as head of Welsh Liberal Democrats
9 – 2008; Governor Blagojevich arrested on multiple charges of corruption.
1917; In Palestine, Freedom Marshall Edmund Allenby, captures Jerusalem.
10 – 1948; The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1869; Wyoming grants women voting rights.
1906; President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be given the Nobel Peace prize (Began in 1901)
11 – 2008; Bernard Madoff, arrested on $50m scheme.
1964; Che Guevera addresses United Nations in New York
12 – 1870; Joseph Rainey becomes first African American United States Congressman for South Carolina.
13 – 2000; Bush v. Gore decision by US Supreme Court to drop contention lawsuit and award Bush the Florida recount and national Presidential victory.
2003; Saddam Hussein captured by US forces near Tikroff in Iraq by Operation Red Dawn)
14 – 2008; Bush ducks; gets shoes thrown at him in Iraq by journalist.
1819; Alabama 22nd state ratified.
15 – 2005; Latvia amends Constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples from marrying.
1970; Illinois state Constitution adopted at Special Election
1791; Bill of Rights is ratified and becomes law due to passage of Virginia legislature.
16 – 2007; Ron Paul drops ‘Money Bomb’ raising $6-million in 24-hrs.
1990; Paul Costellano shot and killed by John Gotti orders who becomes Capo di tutti Capi (Boss of Bosses).
1950; President Truman declares State of Emergency due to Chinese intrusion in the Korean War, on behalf of the North Koreans.
17 – 1718; Great Britain declares War on Spain.
1969; Project Blue Book; Based on the US Air Force (Attached below)
18 – 2002-03; California Governor Gray Davis announces a $35-billion state budget
19 – 1998; Impeachment Articles I & II forwarded to US Senate from US House in regards to the dispelling attempts of President Bill Clinton. The same day 23-years earlier Associate Justice John Paul Stevens appointed to US Supreme Court.
20 – 1860; South Carolina first state to secede from United States.
21 – 1973; Geneva Conference begins on the Arab-Israeli conflict. City of Bethlehem goes from Israeli to Palestinian control in 1995.
22 – 1807; Embargo Act of 1807; passed by Congress with the urging of President T. Jefferson which forbids trade with foreign countries.
23 – 1913; Federal Reserve Act passed to enact the current Federal Reserve department. Signed into law by President W. Wilson
24 – 1914; World War I begins ‘Christmas Truce’; 1943-WWII US General Dwight D. Eisenhower (later US President) becomes Supreme Allied Commander.
25 – Christmas! Russian President (USSR) Gorbachev resigns in 1991. President Andrew Johnson (17th President) grants pardons to all Civil War Confederates.
26 – 1966; The first Kwanzaa recognized and celebrated. 1976 the Marxist/Leninist Communist Party of Nepal is founded.
27 – 1945; The World Bank is founded with 28 nations signing on. 1978 Spain becomes a Democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
28 – 2008; Ravens beat Jacksonville and head to the playoffs to face Miami; 1945 recognition of Pledge of Allegiance by US Congress.
Hassan and my homeboy James, pulled over by Officer Green #3285, who was very disrespectful and ignorant based on the young blacks she faced. Had it been some other race besides that of a minority she would have never treated us as such. And she was Black! That is the worst part! Call and report her and speak your peace, others due but not us! That will change today!
29 - Mayor ‘Tom’ Bradley, born on this day, was the 1st and only Los Angeles Mayor, 1973-1993, the second black Mayor of a major City (following Carl Stokes of Ohio in 1967), is the reason behind the saying of the ‘Bradley Effect’, due to his failed runs for Governor, especially that of the ’82 run that was said to be lost, due solely to race!
30 – 2006; Saddam Hussein executed; also the Madrid Barajas International Airport bombing. 1953, the first color television put on the market in US by RCA for $1,175. 1936, United Auto Workers’ stages first sit-down protest. 1922, the formation of the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
31 – 1999, Vladimir Putin takes office as Acting President of Russia. 1983, AT&T broken up as a monopoly by US Government. 1955, General Motors (GM) Automakers, becomes the first American corporation to make over a $1-billion in one year. How Ironic!
United States presidential election, 1824 | ||||
October 26 - December 1, 1824 | ||||
Nominee | ||||
Party | ||||
Home state | ||||
Electoral vote | 84 | 99 | ||
States carried | 13 (after vote in House) | 7 (after vote in House) | ||
Popular vote | 113,122 | 151,271 | ||
Percentage | 30.9% | 41.3% | ||
Incumbent President James Monroe Democratic-Republican President-Elect John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican | ||||
- General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, a charismatic hero of the War of 1812, a former United States Representative, and a then-current United States Senator from Tennessee.
- John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, son of former President John Adams, former member of the Federalist Party, former United States Minister to Russia, one of the drafters of the Treaty of Ghent, former United States Senator from Massachusetts, and the then-current Secretary of State.
In the United States presidential election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. The previous few years had seen a one-party government in the United States, as the Federalist Party had dissolved, leaving only the Democratic-Republican Party. In this election, the Democratic-Republican Party splintered as four separate candidates sought the presidency. Such splintering had not yet led to formal party organization, but later the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and later the Whig Party.
This election is notable for being the only time since the passage of the Twelfth Amendment in which the presidential election was decided by the House of Representatives, as no candidate received a majority of the electoral vote. This presidential election was also the only one in which the candidate receiving the most electoral votes did not become president (because a majority, not just a plurality, is required to win). It is also often said to be the first election in which the president did not win the popular vote, although the popular vote was not measured nationwide. At that time, several states did not conduct a popular vote, allowing their state legislature to choose their electors.
In 1822, Jackson was nominated for president by the legislature of Tennessee; a convention of Pennsylvanian Democratic-Republicans nominated Jackson in 1824. The traditional Congressional caucus nominated Crawford for president and Albert Gallatin for vice president, but it was sparsely attended and was widely attacked as undemocratic. Gallatin later withdrew from the contest for the vice presidency. In 1823, Crawford suffered a stroke. Even though he recovered in 1824, this crippled his bid for the presidency. Also, John Quincy Adams had more support than Henry Clay because of the huge popularity he had among the old Federalist voters in New England; by now, the Adams family too had united with the Democratic-Republican Party.
The election was partially a contest of favorite sons as it was a conflict over policy (positions on tariffs and internal improvements was where some significant disagreement existed), as the candidates were backed by different sections of the country: Adams was strong in the Northeast, Jackson in the South, West and mid-Atlantic, Clay in parts of the West, and Crawford in parts of the East.
*1969 - Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."
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