1620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA

1727 In France Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay appointed Bishop of Quebec on death of Mgr. de Saint-Vallier; he never came to Canada.

1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia

1776 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat

1791 In the British parlimentLondon England, British PM William Pitt passes the Constitutional Act, dividing Quebec along the Ottawa River, into Upper and Lower Canada,

1799 George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "1st in war, first in peace & first in the hearts of his countrymen"

1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia

1805 The Treaty of Pressburg December 26 ends hostilities between France and Austria

1848 First gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to San Francisco

1848 William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia

1852 New Brunswick-built ship Marco Polo arrives backin Liverpool England from Melbourne, Australia in 140 days, a trip that sually took 240 days; declared the fastest ship in the world; 1883 wrecked when grounded in a gale off Cavendish, PEI.

1854 Wood-pulp paper first exhibited, Buffalo

1860 Maiden voyage of first steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)

1862 First US navy hospital ship enters service

1865 James H Mason (Mass) patents first US coffee percolator

1872 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")

1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds first national convention

1878 First US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia

1878 John Wanamaker installed electric lights in his department store in Philadelphia.

1908 In Sydney Australia Jack Johnson knocks out Canada's Tommy Burns to win the world heavyweight boxing crown; policestopped the fight in the 14th round;

1908 Jackson Johnson defeats Tommy Burns at Sydney, Australia for boxing title

1917 Fed government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I

1925 Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar

1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Broadway

1932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China

1933 The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo under the name Dat Jidosha Seizo Co

1933 US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere

1941 Winston Churchill becomes first British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing"

1942 The Canadian-escorted convoy ONS-154 loses 14 ships to German U-boats in mid-Atlantic; gets 32 to Britain by Dec. 30.

1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst

1943 General A.G.L. 'Andy' McNaughton 1887-1966 retires as commander of First Canadian Army

1944 Battle of Bastogne-US troops repulse the Germans

1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens

1947 British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia

1947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in 16 hrs. That same day, Los Angeles set a record high of 84ø F

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