Today's
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11: UNICEF Birthday (UNICEF Day
For Change): -- December 11, 1946: Humanitarian Aid: Humanitarian
Agencies: UNICEF (The United Nations International Children's
Emergency Fund, The United Nations Children's Fund: -- The United
Nations founds UNICEF as the United Nations International
Children's Emergency Fund, now officially named the United Nations
Children's Fund. UNICEF is an agency of the United Nations
responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to
children worldwide. The agency is among the most widespread and
recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a
presence in 192 countries and territories. UNICEF's activities
include providing immunizations and disease prevention,
administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV,
enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation,
promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to
disasters. UNICEF is the successor of the United Nations
International Children's Emergency Fund, created on 11 December
1946, in New York, by the U.N. Relief Rehabilitation
Administration to provide immediate relief to children and mothers
affected by World War II. The same year, the U.N. General Assembly
established UNICEF to further institutionalize post-war relief
work. In 1950, its mandate was extended to address the long-term
needs of children and women, particularly in developing countries.
In 1953, the organization became a permanent part of the United
Nations System, and its name was subsequently changed to its
current form, though it retains the original acronym. UNICEF
relies entirely on voluntary contributions from governments and
private donors. Its total income as of 2020 was 7.2B USD; of which
public-sector partners contributed 5.45B USD. It is governed by a
36-member executive board that establishes policies, approves
programs, and oversees administrative and financial plans. The
board is made up of government representatives elected by the
United Nations Economic and Social Council, usually for three-year
terms. UNICEF's programs emphasize developing community-level
services to promote the health and well-being of children. Most of
its work is in the field, with a network that includes 150 country
offices, headquarters and other facilities, and 34 "national
committees" that carry out its mission through programs
developed with host governments. Seven regional offices provide
technical assistance to country offices as needed, while its
Supply Division-based in the cities of Copenhagen and New
York-helps provide over 3B USD in critical aid and services. In
2018, UNICEF assisted in the birth of 27 million babies,
administered pentavalent vaccines to an estimated 65.5 million
children, provided education for 12 million children, treated four
million children with severe acute malnutrition, and responded to
285 humanitarian emergencies in 90 countries. UNICEF has received
recognition for its work, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965,
the Indira Gandhi Prize in 1989 and the Princess of Asturias Award
in 2006. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF, along with the
World Health Organization and other agencies, published guidance
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11: Holiday Food Drive For Needy
Animals Day: -- Today commemorates vulnerable animals worldwide
and thanks those who volunteer to help them in their time of
distress. People from all walks of life pool their resources,
organize food donations to local animal shelters, and participate
in volunteer activities to help needy animals. Not all furry
four-legged creatures get the love and attention our pets receive.
Millions of cats, dogs, and other companion animals are homeless,
starving, or suffering from untreated medical conditions. Do your
part to improve their lives today! Animal welfare is by no means a
recent concept in human history. Philosophers like Aristotle
believed that domestic animals were born with a purpose and that
we should appreciate their social and economic contributions to
humankind. Established movements for animal protection in the
modern world appeared in the early 18th and 19th centuries,
beginning with bills against animal cruelty in countries like the
U.K. and the U.S. The Royal Society for the Protection and Care of
Animals (R.S.P.C.A.) was founded in 1824 in the U.K. to advocate
for animal rights and inspire others to treat them with compassion
and respect. In the U.S., the first animal shelter was founded in
1869 as part of an initiative started by Caroline Earle White and
30 female activists. The 1970s marked the birth of the animal
rights movement after Australian philosopher Peter Singer wrote
'Animal Liberation.' Singer's book sparked a debate about the
ethical treatment of animals in the modern world. In 1980, the
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was formed in
Maryland, U.S. The organization's goal was to show Americans how
easy it was to transition to a vegan lifestyle and to practice
cruelty-free shopping habits. PETA employed radical measures to
push its agenda, including using fake blood, body paint, and other
theatrical devices that often courted controversy. By the late
1990s, the animal rights movement was no longer on the fringes of
society. Lawyers, doctors, and various academics joined the
conversation. Animal lovers started Holiday Food Drive for the
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11: The Anniversary Of The
Statute Of Westminster Day: December 11, 1931: -- British
dominions gain complete legislative independence as The Statute Of
Westminster 1931 is adopted by The Parliament Of The United
Kingdom, giving equal status to the dominions of Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and Newfoundland.
Although it is celebrated as a holiday, especially in Canada,
Canadians still go to work, and it is pretty much an ordinary day
for them. It is a nod to Canadian independence. The "Union
Jack," where logistics allow, is flown along with the Maple
Leaf on federal buildings, airports, military bases from dawn to
dusk to mark this day. It commemorates a British law that was
passed on 11 December 1931. It was Canada's final achievement of
independence from Britain. The Statute of Westminster gave Canada
and the other Commonwealth Dominions legal equality with Britain.
These countries now had full legal freedom - except in areas which
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1792: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The
Trial Of Louis XVI (The Trial Of Citizen Louis Capet, The Trial Of
Louis The Last): -- King Louis XVI Of France is put on trial for
treason by the National Convention. The trial of Louis XVI was a
key event of the French Revolution. It involved the trial of the
former French king Louis XVI before the National Convention and
led to his execution by guillotine on January 21, 1793. The
hearing began on December 3. On December 4, the Convention's
president Bertrand Barere presented it with the fatal indictment
(drafted by Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet) and decreed the
interrogation of Louis XVI. Louis made his entrance into the
Convention chamber then: "Louis", said Barere de
Vieuzac, "the nation accuses you, the National Assembly
decreed on 3 December that you would be judged by it; on 6
December, it decided that you would be brought to the dock. We
shall read you the act giving the offenses with which you are
charged...". Controversially, the Convention itself would act
as his judge and jury. Because there was no legal precedent or
constitutional facility for a legislature to act as a court, the
Convention's decision was highly irregular and of doubtful
legality. The king's trial began a week later, on December 11th
1792. In the few days available to him Louis assembled a defence
team containing some of France's best lawyers: the gifted orator
Raymond de Seze; Francois Tronchet, who had interrogated Louis
after his arrest at Varennes; and Guillaume Malesherbes, the
retired jurist and former minister of state. These men prepared
the king's defence thoroughly and delivered it with vigour, in
spite of the dangers to their careers and their lives. De Seze,
who was given limited time to prepare and had barely slept for
four days, delivered a brilliant opening address that focused on
the king's inviolability and the Convention's unfitness to judge
him: "You want to pronounce on the fate of Louis, yet it is
you yourselves who accuse him! You want to pronounce on the fate
of Louis, yet you have already declared your views! You want to
pronounce on the fate of Louis, yet your opinions are already
spread across Europe!" The former king took a close personal
interest in his defence. He spent hours each day with his lawyers;
their discussions, later described by Malesherbes and Louis' valet
Jean-Baptiste Clery, were intelligent and lively. The king had the
final say on legal arguments and oversight and approval of all
speeches. He would not allow his counsellors to claim he was
ignorant of the law, nor would he permit them to invoke pity with
emotive language. Under Louis' instructions, his lawyers instead
focused on his constitutional inviolability as monarch and the
illegality of the trial. Raymond de Seze dissected the charges one
by one, skilfully refuting claims that the king was to blame for
broken oaths, foreign aggression, emigres, military failures,
bloodshed at the Champ de Mars and the Tuileries. But while the
deposed king had masterful advocates and brilliant men at his
side, he was damned by his own testimony. Louis' utterances in the
witness chair, like many of his utterances on the throne, ranged
from stubborn and indignant to evasive and vacillating. To claim
the inviolability provided by the constitution, Louis had to
present as a monarch who trusted the constitution. Given the
political climate inside and outside the Convention, it would have
taken a masterful performance to save the former king, but his
responses under cross-examination were far from masterful. On
January 15th 1793, following a short deliberation, the
Convention's deputies handed down a unanimous guilty verdict, 693
votes to none. A total of 49 deputies chose to abstain or were
absent. The question then turned to the king's fate. Outside the
Convention, the gutter press and the Paris sections screamed for
his execution. The Jacobins within the Convention also supported
the death penalty. The Girondins, however, feared the
ramifications of bowing to the Paris crowd and executing the king
without a public mandate. Since Christmas 1792, Girondin deputies
had been lobbying for an appel au peuple ('appeal to the people')
- in effect, a national referendum on whether the king should die.
This issue further exposed the gulf between the Paris-centric
Jacobins and the nationally-minded Girondins. The fate of the king
was eventually concluded on January 17th. It was the Jacobins who
won the day, gaining the support of the Plain and defeating the
motion for an appel au peuple by 424 votes to 283. The Convention
then voted 387 to 334 in favour of executing the former king. A
group of 72 deputies raised a supplementary motion urging clemency
and a reprieve for the king, but this motion was voted down 380 to
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1803: #BOTD: #HBD! Hector
Berlioz, French Romantic composer, conductor, and critic, best
known for his compositions Symphonie Fantastique and Grande Messe
Des Morts (Requiem) (d. March 8, 1869) is #born at his family's
home in the commune of La Cote-Saint-Andre in the departement of
Isere, in south-eastern France (currently The Musee Hector-Berlioz
[The Hector Berlioz Museum]). Berlioz made significant
contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on
Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of
his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000
musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice,
piano and orchestra. His influence was critical for the further
development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard
Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and
Gustav Mahler. Hector Berlioz died at his house in the Rue de
Calais on 8 March 1869, at the age of 65. He is buried in
Montmartre Cemetery with his two wives, who were exhumed and
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1882: #BOTD: #HBD! Fiorello
La Guardia, Italian-Jewish American lawyer and politician, 99th
Mayor of New York City for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a
Republican (d. September 20, 1947) is #born Fiorello Enrico
La_Guardia, in Greenwich Village, New York City. Fiorello Henry La
Guardia's father, Achille La Guardia, was a Catholic native of
Cerignola, Apulia, Italy, an Italian immigrant to the United
States and a non-practicing Catholic. His mother, Irene Luzzatto
Coen, was a Jewish native of Trieste, then part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, also an immigrant to the United States.
His maternal grandmother Fiorina (Luzzatto) Coen was a Luzzatto, a
member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars,
kabbalists, and poets. La Guardia's parents met and married in
Trieste. Fiorello was raised an Episcopalian and practiced that
religion all his life. His middle name "Enrico" was
eventually anglicized to "Henry". Fiorello La Guardia
was elected to Congress in 1916 and 1918, and again from 1922
through 1930. Irascible, energetic, and charismatic, he craved
publicity and is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in
American history. Only five feet, two inches (1.57 m) tall, he was
called "the Little Flower" (Fiorello is Italian for
"little flower"). La Guardia, a Republican who appealed
across party lines, was very popular in New York during the 1930s.
As a New Dealer, he supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a
Democrat, and in turn Roosevelt heavily funded the city and cut
off patronage for La Guardia's enemies. La Guardia revitalized New
York City and restored public faith in City Hall. He unified the
transit system, directed the building of low-cost public housing,
public playgrounds, and parks, constructed airports, reorganized
the police force, defeated the powerful Tammany Hall political
machine, and reestablished employment on merit in place of
patronage jobs. La Guardia was a domineering leader who verged on
authoritarian but whose reform politics were carefully tailored to
address the sentiments of his diverse constituency. He defeated a
corrupt Democratic machine, presided during a depression and a
world war, made the city the model for New Deal welfare and public
works programs, and championed immigrants and ethnic minorities.
He succeeded with the support of a sympathetic president. He
secured his place in history as a tough-minded reform mayor who
helped clean out corruption, brought in gifted experts, and fixed
upon the city a broad sense of responsibility for its own
citizens. His administration engaged new groups that had been kept
out of the political system, gave New York its modern
infrastructure, and raised expectations of new levels of urban
possibility. Fiorello La Guardia dief of pancreatic cancer in his
home at 5020 Goodridge Avenue, in the Fieldston neighbourhood of
Riverdale, Bronx, aged 64. La Guardia is interred at Woodlawn
Cemetery in the Bronx in a simple grave that reads "La
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1913: #BOTD: #HBD! Buddy
Trenier, African American singer of The Treniers (d. March 15,
1999) is #born. The Treniers (pronounced TREY-niers) were an
American R & B, jump blues and rock and roll group led by
identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier. They were originally
billed as The Trenier Twins, who performed alongside the Gene
Gilbeaux Quartet, but shortened their name to The Treniers when
Gilbeaux and other musicians became integral members of the group.
Besides the Trenier brothers, group members included Don Hill on
saxophone, Shifty Henry and later James (Jimmy) Johnson on bass,
Henry (Tucker) Green on drums and Gene Gilbeaux on piano. Later,
additional Trenier brothers Milt and Buddy, and nephew Skip,
joined the group on vocals, and there were many other musician and
line-up changes over the years including Herman Washington and
Mickey Baker on guitar. The band was based around twins Clifton L.
"Cliff" Trenier (July 14, 1919 - March 2, 1983) and
Claude Oliver Trenier (July 14, 1919 - November 17, 2003). They
were born in Mobile, Alabama, and formed the Alabama State
Collegians when in college together in 1939. In 1943, Claude
Trenier left to join Jimmie Lunceford's band as lead singer, and
Cliff joined him the following year. The twins left the Lunceford
band in 1947 and began performing together as the Trenier Twins,
backed by the Gene Gilbeaux Quartet which included Gene Gilbeaux
on piano and Don Hill on alto sax. They made their first
recordings for Mercury Records in 1947, and developed a strong
reputation for their live performances. In 1949, they were joined
by older brother Buddy Trenier (December 11, 1913 - March 15,
1999), and started to be billed as "The Rockin' Rollin'
Treniers". They played a form of music intermediate between
swing and early rock and roll. Though their sound is more swing
influenced, the Treniers incorporated a thumping backbeat and
several songs that included the words "rock" and "roll"
- "Rocking on Sunday Night" and "It Rocks! It
Rolls! It Swings!", for example, and in the 1940s were
already playing "Rockin' Is Our Bizness," which was
inspired by Jimmie Lunceford's "Rhythm Is Our Business"
from the 1930s. They were also known for the humorous content of
many of their songs, and their on stage acrobatics were seen as
precursors to the wild antics of many later rock and roll groups.
Their lively stage presentation influenced Bill Haley and Comets,
The Shadows in the UK in 1959, Paul Revere and Raiders, and
beyond. They had their only national chart hit in 1951, when "Go!
Go! Go!" reached #10 on the R & B chart, but several of
their other records including "It Rocks! It Rolls! It
Swings!" (1952) and "Rockin' Is Our Bizness" (1953)
"anticipated some crucial elements of rock n roll with their
solid, thumping beats, their squealing sax solos." In the
1950s, they moved closer towards an R & B influenced sound,
but were unable to weather the influx of rock and roll.
Nonetheless the group was considered a strong influence on bands
such as their contemporaries Bill Haley and His Comets, and they
were one of the first to record Haley's "Rock-a-Beatin'
Boogie". Claude Trenier would later claim in an interview in
Blue Suede News magazine that his group was responsible for Haley
deciding to record rock and roll; this account is disputed. One of
the first times rock and roll appeared on national television was
in May 1954 when the Treniers appeared on the Colgate Comedy Hour,
hosted by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. During the playing of their
songs, Martin and Lewis participated in the antics, and when the
drummer got up and stepped aside, Jerry Lewis sat down and played
drums for one song. The group appeared in several films in the
1950s including The Girl Can't Help It and Don't Knock the Rock
(which also featured Haley), and continued to perform as recently
as 2003. In 1955, the group released the song "Say Hey (The
Willie Mays Song)" about Giants center fielder, Willie Mays,
which included some dialogue by the Hall-of-Famer himself. The
song is included on the soundtrack to Ken Burns 1994 documentary
Baseball. Buddy Trenier died at age 85. The location of his death
as well as his burial details are not publicly disclosed. In 2013,
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short
story writer and political prisoner and recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Literature (d. August 3, 2008) is #born Aleksandr
Isayevich Solzhenitsyn in Kislovodsk, RSFSR (now in Stavropol
Krai, Russia). Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of
the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global
awareness of the Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp system. After
serving in the Red Army during World War II, he was sentenced to
spend eight years in a labour camp and then internal exile for
criticizing Josef Stalin in a private letter. He was allowed to
publish only one work in the Soviet Union, the novel One Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962). Although the reforms brought
by Nikita Khrushchev freed him from exile in 1956, the publication
of Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), and The Gulag
Archipelago (1973) angered the Soviet Union authorities, and
Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship and was exiled in 1974.
He was flown to West Germany, and in 1976 he moved with his family
to the United States, where he continued to write. In 1990,
shortly before the Dissolution Of The Soviet Union, his
citizenship was restored, and four years later he returned to
Russia, where he remained until his death in 2008. He was awarded
the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force
with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian
literature". His The Gulag Archipelago was a highly
influential work that "amounted to a head-on challenge to the
Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies. Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn died aged 89 in Moscow, SFSR of heart failure. He is
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Big Mama
Thornton, African American pioneer R & B and Rock and Roll
singer and songwriter (d. July 25, 1984) is #born Willie Mae
Thornton in Ariton, Alabama. She was the first to record Jerry
Leiber and Mike Stoller's "Hound Dog" in 1952, later
recorded by Elvis Presley, which became her biggest hit, one of
the first true rock and roll recordings, staying seven weeks at
number one on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records chart in
1953 and selling almost two million copies. Thornton's other
recordings included the original version of "Ball and Chain",
which she wrote, and was famously covered by Janis Joplin. Big
Mama Thornton was found dead at age 57 by medical personnel in a
Los Angeles boarding house. She died of heart and liver disorders
due to her longstanding alcohol abuse. She had lost 355 pounds in
a short time as a result of illness, her weight dropping from 450
to 95 pounds. She is buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery in
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1931: #BOTD: #HBD! Rita
Moreno, Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, comedian, dancer
and beauty, is #born Rosa Dolores Alverio Marcano in Humacao,
Puerto Rico, to Rosa Maria (nee Marcano), a seamstress, and
Francisco Jose "Paco" Alverio, a farmer. She was
nicknamed "Rosita". Her career has spanned over 70
years; among her notable acting work are supporting roles in the
musical films Singin' in the Rain (1952), The King and I (1956)
and West Side Story (1961), as well as a 1971 to 1977 stint on the
children's television series The Electric Company, and a
supporting role as Sister Peter Marie Reimondo on the HBO series
Oz from 1997 to 2003. Her other notable films include Popi (1969),
Carnal Knowledge (1971), Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980), The Four
Seasons (1981), I Like It Like That (1994) and the cult film Slums
of Beverly Hills (1998). She voiced the titular role of Carmen
Sandiego in Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? from 1994 to 1999.
For theater, she is best known for her role as Googie Gomez in The
Ritz. As of 2020, she is currently portraying the role of the
matriarch Lydia Margarita del Carmen Inclan Maribona Leyte-Vidal
de Riera in the 2017 remake of One Day at a Time. Moreno is one of
the few artists to have won all four major annual American
entertainment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. She
is also one of 23 people who have achieved what is called the
Triple Crown of Acting, with individual competitive Academy, Emmy
and Tony awards for acting; she and Helen Hayes are the only two
who have achieved both distinctions. She has won numerous other
awards, including various lifetime achievement awards and the
Presidential Medal Of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.
In 2015, she was awarded a Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Artistic
Achievement Award for her contribution to American culture,
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1931: #BOTD: Rajneesh, also
known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, and later as
Osho, Indian so-called godman, guru, mystic, teacher, cult leader
and criminal, founder of the Rajneesh movement (d. January 19,
1990) is #born Chandra Mohan Jain in Kuchwada, Bhopal State,
British India. During his lifetime, he was viewed as a
controversial new religious movement leader and mystic. In the
1960s, he travelled throughout India as a public speaker and was a
vocal critic of socialism, arguing that India was not ready for
socialism, and that socialism, communism, and anarchism could
evolve only when capitalism had reached its maturity. Rajneesh
also criticised Mahatma Gandhi and the orthodoxy of mainstream
religions. Rajneesh emphasised the importance of meditation,
mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity, and humour -
qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to
static belief systems, religious tradition, and socialisation. In
advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused
controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as
"the sex guru". In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai
initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During
this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented
extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions,
mystics, bhakti poets, and philosophers from around the world. In
1974, Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established
and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed
by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western
following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling
Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a
curbing of the ashram's development and a back tax claim estimated
at 5M USD. In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on
activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a
facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost
immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents
and the state government, and a succession of legal battles
concerning the ashram's construction and continued development
curtailed its success. In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious
crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack
with salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to
murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his
personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had
been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in
accordance with an Alford plea bargain. After his deportation, 21
countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and
revived the Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. His remains were
cremated, and the ashes were placed in his bedroom in one of the
main buildings (LaoTsu House) at his Ashram in Pune, India, now
known as OSHO International Meditation Resort. The resort and all
associated intellectual property is managed by the registered Osho
International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International
Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had an impact on Western
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1936: The United Kingdom:
The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United
Kingdom: The Monarchy Of The United Kingdom (The British
Monarchy): Royal Accessions: Royal Abdications: The Abdication Of
Edward VIII: -- The former Edward VIII, having abdicated as King
the day before, made a BBC radio broadcast from Windsor Castle as
"His Royal Highness Prince Edward", speaking about his
inability to do his job "as I would have wished" without
the support of "the woman I love", a twice-divorced
American named Wallis Warfield Simpson. This official address had
been polished by Wingston Churchill and was deliberately moderate
in tone. Edward's reign had lasted 327 days, the shortest of any
British monarch since the disputed reign of Lady Jane Grey over
380 years earlier. The day following the broadcast he left Britain
for Austria. Prince Edward and Simpson were married in France on
June 3, 1937 and then lived in Paris. A constitutional crisis in
the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to
marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from
her first husband and was pursuing a divorce of her second. The
marriage was opposed by the governments of the United Kingdom and
the Dominions of the British Commonwealth. Religious, legal,
political and moral objections were raised. As British monarch,
Edward was the nominal head of the Church of England, which did
not then allow divorced people to remarry in church if their
ex-spouses were still alive. For this reason, it was widely
believed that Edward could not marry Simpson and remain on the
throne. Simpson was perceived to be politically and socially
unsuitable as a prospective queen consort because of her two
failed marriages. It was widely assumed by the Establishment that
she was driven by love of money or position rather than love for
the King. Despite the opposition, Edward declared that he loved
Simpson and intended to marry her whether his governments approved
or not. The widespread unwillingness to accept Simpson as the
King's consort and Edward's refusal to give her up led to his
abdication in December 1936. He was succeeded by his brother
George VI. Edward was given the title His Royal Highness the Duke
of Windsor following his abdication, and he married Simpson the
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Tom
Hayden, American social and political activist and politician,
author and politician, who was director of The Peace And Justice
Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California, best known for
his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical
intellectual counterculture activist (d. October 23, 2016) is
#born Thomas Emmet Hayden in Royal Oak, Michigan. Hayden was for a
time the husband of actress Jane Fonda, and was the father of
their child, actor Troy Garity. He was a major figure involved in
the August 28, 1968 Chicago Police Riot, where around 10,000
protesters were gathered in Grant Park for the demonstration
against the Democratic National Convention's proceedings in
choosing the pro-war candidate Hubert Humphrey as the party choice
for president of the United States. At approximately 3:30 p.m., a
young man lowered the American flag that was there. The police
broke through the crowd and began beating the young man, while the
crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, and chunks of concrete.
Tom Hayden, one of the leaders of Students for a Democratic
Society, encouraged protesters to move out of the park to ensure
that if the police used tear gas on them, it would have to be done
throughout the city. The amount of tear gas used to suppress the
protesters was so great that it made its way to the Hilton Hotel,
where it disturbed Hubert Humphrey while in his shower. The
Justice Department meted out charges of conspiracy and incitement
to riot in connection with the violence at Chicago. This created
the Chicago Eight, consisting of protesters Abbie Hoffman, Tom
Hayden, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Jerry Rubin,
Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. Demonstrations were held daily during
the trial, organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End
the War in Vietnam, the Young Lords, and the local Black Panther
Party led by Chairman Fred Hampton. In February 1970, five of the
remaining seven Chicago Conspiracy defendants (Seale's charges had
been separated from the rest) were convicted on the charge of
intent to incite a riot while crossing state lines, but none were
found guilty of conspiracy. Judge Julius Hoffman sentenced the
defendants and their attorneys to unprecedented prison terms
ranging from two-and-a-half months to four years for contempt of
court. The convictions were eventually reversed on appeal, and the
government declined to bring the case to trial again. Tom Hayden
died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, aged 76, after a
history of heart problems and declining health in the preceding
months. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, where
he was the first interment in "Eternal Meadow," an
eco-friendly section. Former US President Bill Clinton
memorialized him, saying, "Hillary and I knew him for more
than thirty years and valued both his words of support and his
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1941:The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Axis Powers (The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis): The
Tripartite Pact (The Berlin Pact): German Declaration Of War
Against The United States: Italian Declaration Of War Against The
United States: -- A major turning point in World War II occurs as
Japan's Axis partners, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, according
to the terms of the Tripartite Pact betwen them, declare war on
the United States following the American declaration of war on the
Empire Of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The
U.S. Congress immediately reciprocated by declaring war on Nazi
Germany and Fascist Italy. President Roosevelt then made the
defeat of Hitler the top priority, devoting nearly 90 percent of
U.S. military resources to the war in Europe. Nazi Germany's
military position had already become precarious by this time, and
as Hitler's honoring this pact was one of the few treaties he
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! John
Kerry, American lieutenant, activist, lawyer, politician and
diplomat, 68th United States Secretary Of State, first United
States special presidential envoy for climate, is #born John
Forbes Kerry at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora,
Colorado. A member of the Forbes family - a Boston Brahmin family
(Boston elite families, members of Boston's traditional upper
class), a wealthy extended American family long prominent in
Boston, Massachusetts - and the Democratic Party, he previously
served as the 68th United States Secretary Of State from 2013 to
2017 under Barack Obama and as a United States senator from
Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013. He was the Democratic nominee for
president of the United States in the 2004 election, losing to
incumbent President George W. Bush. Kerry grew up as a child of
military personnel in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., before
attending boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In
1966, after graduating from Yale University, he enlisted in the
United States Naval Reserve, ultimately attaining the rank of
lieutenant. From 1968 to 1969, during the Vietnam War, Kerry
served an abbreviated four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam.
While commanding a Swift boat, he sustained three wounds in combat
with the Viet Cong, for which he earned three Purple Heart Medals.
Kerry was awarded the Silver Star Medal and the Bronze Star Medal
for valorous conduct in separate military engagements. After
completing his active military service, Kerry returned to the
United States and became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.
He gained national recognition as an anti-war activist, serving as
a spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
organization. Kerry testified in the Fulbright Hearings before the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where he described the
United States government's policy in Vietnam as the cause of war
crimes. In 1972, Kerry entered electoral politics as a Democratic
candidate for the United States House Of Representatives in
Massachusetts's 5th congressional district. Kerry won the
Democratic nomination but was defeated in the general election by
his Republican opponent. He subsequently worked as a radio talk
show host in Lowell and as the executive director of an advocacy
organization while attending the Boston College School of Law.
After obtaining his juris doctor in 1976, Kerry served from 1977
to 1979 as the first assistant district attorney of Middlesex
County, where he tried criminal cases and managed the district
attorney's office. After a period in private legal practice, he
was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1982. In 1984,
Kerry was elected to the United States Senate. As a member of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, he led a series of hearings
investigating narcotics trafficking in Latin America, which
exposed aspects of the Iran-Contra Affair. He was reelected to
additional terms in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008. Kerry won the
Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2004, alongside vice
presidential nominee and North Carolina Senator John Edwards.
Kerry campaigned as a critic of Republican President George W.
Bush's prosecution of the Iraq War and advocated a liberal
domestic policy. He lost the Electoral College and the popular
vote by slim margins, winning 251 electors to Bush's 286 and 48.3%
of the popular vote to Bush's 50.7%. Kerry remained in the Senate
and chaired the Committee on Foreign Relations from 2009 to 2013.
In January 2013, Kerry was nominated by president Barack Obama to
succeed Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton, and was confirmed by
his Senate colleagues on a vote of 94 to 3. He was U.S. Secretary
Of State throughout the second term of the Obama administration
from 2013 to 2017. During his tenure, he initiated the 2013-2014
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and negotiated agreements
restricting the nuclear program of Iran, including the 2013 Joint
Plan of Action and the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In
2015, Kerry signed the Paris Agreement on climate change on behalf
of the United States. At the end of the Obama administration in
January 2017, Kerry remained active in public affairs from 2017 to
2021 as a vocal opponent of Obama's successor, President Donald
Trump. Kerry returned to government in January 2021, becoming the
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Brenda Lee, American singer and songwriter, is #born Brenda Mae Tarpley in the charity ward of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, to parents Annie Grace (nee Yarbrough) and Reuben Lindsey Tarpley. She weighed 4 pounds 11 ounces at birth. Lee attended grade schools wherever her father found work, primarily between Atlanta and Augusta. Her family was poor. As a child, she shared a bed with her brother and sister in a series of three-room houses without running water. Life centered on her parents finding work, their family, and the Baptist church, where she began singing solos every Sunday. Lee's father was a farmer's son in Georgia's red-clay belt. Standing 5 ft 7 inches, he was an excellent left-handed pitcher and spent 11 years in the United States Army playing baseball. Her mother came from a working class family in Greene County, Georgia. Though her family did not have indoor plumbing until after her father's death, they had a battery-powered table radio that fascinated Brenda as a baby. Both her mother and sister remembered taking her repeatedly to a local candy store before she turned three. One of them would stand her on the counter and she would earn candy or coins for singing. Known professionally as Brenda Lee, she performed rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which has become a Christmas standard. At 4 ft 9 inches tall (approximately 145 cm), she received the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite" in 1957, after recording the song "Dynamite" when she was 12, and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following. In 1969, Lee returned to the charts with her recording "Johnny One Time" penned by A.L. "Doodle" Owens and Dallas Frazier. The song reached #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart and #41 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also earned Lee her second Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal. Later success came with a return to her roots as a country singer, with a string of hits through the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Lee is the only woman to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/a-78-rpm-christmas-mp3783.html
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1959: The History Of Cuba:
The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War
(1953-1962): The Cuban Cold War: The Cuban Revolution: The
Consolidation Of The Cuban Revolution (Cuba Under Fidel Castro):
The Bay Of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasion De Bahia De Cochinos,
Invasion De Playa Giron, Batalla De Playa Giron): Operation 40: --
Following the Cuban Revolution of January 1959, Colonel J.C. King,
chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, sent a
confidential memorandum to CIA director Allen W. Dulles. King
argued that in Cuba there existed a "far-left dictatorship,
which if allowed to remain will encourage similar actions against
U.S. holdings in other Latin American countries." This
memorandum resulted on March 17, 1960 in U.S. President Dwight D.
Eisenhower signing the National Security Council directive that
ordered the creation of Operation 40, the code name for the
anti-Cuban covert action program conceived by Richard Bissel and
presided over by Vice President Richard Nixon, which authorized
the CIA to sponsor, organize, train, and equip Cuban refugees and
Cuban exiles as a guerrilla and paramilitary force force to
overthrow the government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and
seize control of the Cuban government after what was to become
known as The Bay Of Pigs Invasion (April 17-20, 1961). Operation
40 continued to operate unofficially until disbanded in 1970 due
to allegations that an aircraft that was carrying cocaine and
heroin in support of the group crashed in California. By early
1960, President Eisenhower had begun contemplating ways to remove
Castro, in the hopes that he might be replaced by a Cuban
government-in-exile, though none existed at the time. On December
11, 1959, following the Cuban Revolution of January 1959, Colonel
J.C. King, chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, sent a
confidential memorandum to CIA director Allen W. Dulles. King
argued that in Cuba there existed a "far-left dictatorship,
which if allowed to remain will encourage similar actions against
U.S. holdings in other Latin American countries." This
memorandum resulted in the formation of Operation 40. The group
that ran Operation 40 was presided over by then-Vice President
Richard M. Nixon and included Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston
Merchant of the State Department, National Security Adviser Gordon
Gray, as well as CIA director Allen Dulles. Tracy Barnes, senior
staff member at the CIA who served as principal manager CIA
operations in the 1954 Guatemalan Coup D'Etat, functioned as
operating office of the Cuban Task Force and as principal manager
of the The Bay Of Pigs Invasion. Nixon called a meeting on January
18, 1960, in his temporary office near the Lincoln Memorial.
Operation 40 was not only involved in sabotage operations. One
associate of the group, although never a member, Frank Sturgis,
one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of
the presidency of Richard Nixon, allegedly told author Mike
Canfield: "this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon
orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or
the political parties of the foreign country that you were going
to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were
suspected of being foreign agents...We were concentrating strictly
in Cuba at that particular time." The group sought to incite
civil war in Cuba against the government of prime minister Fidel
Castro. When Operation 40 failed in accomplishing this goal, then
in October 1960, Brigade 2506 was created, a CIA-sponsored group
made up of 1,511 Cuban exiles who fought in the April 1961 Bay of
Pigs Invasion. On April 17, 1961, Vicente Leon Leon, with other
members of Operation 40, landed at the Bay of Pigs via the
CIA-chartered freighter Atlantico, and was killed in action.
Operation 40 is a playable faction in the video game Call Of Duty:
Black Ops. Within the game's campaign mode, there is heavy
implication that the main protagonist and Operation 40 operative
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1961: Civil Rights
Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968):
Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Discrimination: The Sit-In
Movement (The Sit-In Campaign, The Student Sit-In Movement):
Garner v. Louisiana: -- The United States Supreme Court rules
unanimously in Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), a
landmark civil rights case argued before the court by Thurgood
Marshall, that Louisiana could not convict peaceful sit-in
protesters who refused to leave dining establishments under the
state's "disturbing the peace" laws. African-American
students from Southern University sat at a whites-only segregated
lunch bar at Sitman's Drugstore in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The
management summoned the police after the students quietly remained
despite being asked to relocate to another counter. After ordering
the black patrons to leave, the police arrested them, charged them
with disturbing the peace, and claimed that their behavior could
"foreseeably disturb or alarm the public," according to
the state's "disturbing the peace" statute. The National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People defended the
student demonstrators, and the Kennedy administration's Justice
Department filed a legal brief on their behalf. In a 9-0 decision,
the Supreme Court ruled in the African-American students' favor,
agreeing that the state had violated due process of law under the
Fourteenth amendment, and found no evidence that the students'
behavior could have foreseeably disturbed the peace. In his
written opinion, Justice John Marshall Harlan likened sit-in
demonstrations to verbal expression as a form of free speech.
Justice William O. Douglas's concurring opinion stated, "For
the police are supposed to be on the side of the Constitution, not
on the side of discrimination. Yet if all constitutional questions
are to be put aside and the problem treated merely in terms of
disturbing the peace, I would have difficulty in reversing these
judgments. I think, however, the constitutional questions must be
reached and that they make reversal necessary." Garner v.
Louisiana was an important case for the Civil Rights Movement, and
one of many civil rights cases argued before the Warren Court
(1953-69). Eventually, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 "outlawed
discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin
in hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and all other public
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1972: Lunar Landings: The
History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space
Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: The
Discovery And Exploration Of The Solar System: Missions To The
Moon: Project Apollo: Apollo 17: -- The sixth and last Apollo
mission to land on the Moon occurs when the Apollo 17 Lunar Module
Challenger lands in the Moon's Taurus-Littrow Valley at 2:55 p.m.
EST. Launched on December 7, 1972 at 05:33:00 UTC (12:33 a.m. EST)
from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), with a
crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot
Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, it was the
last use of Apollo hardware for its original purpose; after Apollo
17, extra Apollo spacecraft were used in the Skylab and
Apollo-Soyuz programs. Apollo 17 was the first night launch of a
U.S. human spaceflight and the final manned launch of a Saturn V
rocket. It included three days on the lunar surface, extended
scientific capability, and the third Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV).
While Evans remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module
(CSM), Cernan and Schmitt spent just over three days on the moon
in the Taurus-Littrow valley and completed three moonwalks, taking
lunar samples and deploying scientific instruments. Evans took
scientific measurements and photographs from orbit using a
Scientific Instruments Module mounted in the Service Module. The
landing site was chosen with the primary objectives of Apollo 17
in mind: to sample lunar highland material older than the impact
that formed Mare Imbrium, and investigate the possibility of
relatively new volcanic activity in the same area. Cernan, Evans
and Schmitt returned to Earth on December 19 after a 12-day
mission. Apollo 17 is the most recent manned Moon landing and was
the last time humans travelled beyond low Earth orbit. It was also
the first mission to have no one on board who had been a test
pilot; X-15 test pilot Joe Engle lost the lunar module pilot
assignment to Schmitt, a scientist. The mission broke several
records: the longest moon landing, longest total extravehicular
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11, 1978: Crime: Organized
Crime: Organized Crime In The United States: The Lucchese Crime
Family: James Burke (Jimmy The Gent): The Lufthansa Heist: -- An
estimated 5.875M USD (equivalent to 24.4M USD in 2021), including
5M USD in currency (the largest currency robbery committed on
American soil at the time) and 875K USD in jewelry, is robbed from
New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport by a group
reputedly led by the mastermind of the robbery, Lucchese family
associate James Burke, also known as Jimmy The Gent, though he was
never officially charged in connection with the crime. Burke is
also alleged to have either committed or ordered the murders of
many of those involved in the months following the robbery to
avoid being implicated in the heist. The only person convicted in
the robbery was Louis Werner, an airport worker who helped plan
the heist. The money and jewelry were never recovered. The heist's
magnitude made it one of the longest-investigated crimes in the
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Today, December 11, 2025
December 11: International Mountain Day:
-- As day to take a scenic hike or drive up a nearby peak, try
adventurous sports like mountain biking and skiing or camp out and
sleep under the stars. Mountains are some of the most interesting
geological features that our world has to offer, stolid and regal
as they stand against the sky, of such a size that they can catch
entire countrysides in their shadow, and turn back the ravages of
storms against their unflinching sides. Clear proof of the massive
changes that happen beneath the surface of our planet, mountains
have also served as playgrounds and places of worship for
countless generations of humans. Anything that's been such a
mainstay for so many people and cultures through millennia is
worth commemorating! A mountain is basically a huge landform that
rises above the land that surrounds it in a limit area, typically
forming in a peak at the top. Mountains are generally deemed to be
steeper than a hill. Mountains are formed by volcanism or tectonic
forces. The force can raise the earth's surface locally. Glaciers,
weather conditions, and rivers can slowly erode the mountains.
There are a few mountains that have isolated summits. However,
most tend to be part of big mountain ranges. International
Mountain Day has been created so that everyone can embrace the
wonder and magic of the mountains around us. There are some truly
spectacular mountains all around the world. You may have even had
the pleasure of climbing one or several of them. Some of the most
famous mountains include the likes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount
Fuji, and Mount Everest. On this date, we appreciate all of the
world's mountains. It is also a good day to take some time to
reflect on those who have lost their lives while attempting to do
dangerous mountain climbs and to pay tribute to them. Mountains
are the source of recreation and resource, with snow-covered sides
providing ski slopes to enthusiasts, and minerals in abundance to
those brave enough to delve into their stony sides. In certain
areas of the world, they are also a source of unique agriculture,
providing ample space for the production of those products that
grow best on their slopes. Coffee, Cocoa, Herbs, Spices, and the
form of handicrafts that spring from the minds of those who live
in the unchanging protection of these towering edifices to
geology. International Mountain Day is your opportunity to head
out and appreciate these unique landforms, and all they have to
offer. There are a number of reasons why International Mountain
Day is loved by people all over the world. This includes the fact
that mountains are scarce in some areas of the world, which makes
them precious to a lot of people. You can spend hours reading up
about different folk tales and legends about different mountains
around the world. This is certainly one of the most fascinating
and interesting ways to learn more about the world on
International Mountain Day. Plus, International Mountain Day gives
you the perfect excuse to climb that mountain that you may have
always wanted to climb! Established in December of 2003, the
United Nations General Assembly created this day to help bring
awareness to all of the things we rely on mountains for. Whether
it's all of the glories mentioned above, or how necessary they are
for the health and well-being of the flora and fauna that call
them their home, International Mountain Day promotes them all.
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Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 1941: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The Battle Of Wake Island: -- During the ultimately
victorious Japanese invasion of the island, an assault that began
simultaneous to the Attack On Pearl Harbor on December 7 Hawaiian
time (December 8 Wake Island time), the Imperial Japanese Navy
(IJN) suffers its first loss of surface vessels when the Japanese
destroyer Hayate is sunk by America's Gun Battery L on Wake
Island's Peale Islet at a distance of 4,000_yards with at least
two direct hits to her magazines, causing her to explode and sink
within two minutes, and four Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter planes
sink the destroyer Kisaragi by dropping a bomb on her stern where
the depth charges were stored, although some suggest the bomb hit
elsewhere causing an explosion amidships. These two destroyers
were lost with all their crews (except one survivor from Hayate),
with Hayate becoming the first Japanese surface warship to be sunk
in the war. The Battle of Wake Island was fought from December 8
till December 23, with the surrender of American forces to the
Empire Of Japan. It was fought on and around the atoll formed by
Wake Island and its minor islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands by
the air, land, and naval forces of the Japanese Empire against
those of the United States, with Marines playing a prominent role
on both sides. The island was held by the Japanese for the
duration of the Pacific War theater of World War II; the remaining
Japanese garrison on the island surrendered to a detachment of
United States Marines on 4 September 1945, after the earlier
surrender on 2 September 1945 on the battleship USS_Missouri in
Tokyo Bay to General Douglas MacArthur.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Boer Wars: First Boer War & Second Boer War MP4 Video Download
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Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 1899: New Imperialism: The
Scramble For Africa: The Boer Wars: The Second Boer War (The Boer
War, The Anglo-Boer War, The South African War): The Battle Of
Magersfontein: -- Boer forces commanded by General Piet Cronje
defeat British Empire forces commanded by Lord Methuen trying to
relieve the Siege of Kimberley. The battle was fought at
Magersfontein, near Kimberley, South Africa, on the borders of the
Cape Colony and the independent republic of the Orange Free State.
British forces under Lieutenant General Lord Methuen were
advancing north along the railway line from the Cape to relieve
the siege of Kimberley, but their path was blocked at
Magersfontein by a Boer force that was entrenched in the
surrounding hills. The British had already fought a series of
battles with the Boers, most recently at Modder River, where the
advance was temporarily halted. Lord Methuen failed to perform
adequate reconnaissance in preparation for the impending battle
and was unaware that Boer Vecht-generaal (Combat General) De la
Rey had entrenched his forces at the foot of the hills, rather
than the forward slopes, as was the accepted practice. That
allowed the Boers to survive the initial British artillery
bombardment, and when the British troops failed to deploy from a
compact formation during their advance, the defenders inflicted
heavy casualties. The Highland Brigade suffered the worst
casualties, and on the Boer side, the Scandinavian Corps was
destroyed. The Boers attained a tactical victory and succeeded in
holding the British in their advance on Kimberley. The battle was
the second of three battles during what became known as the Black
Week of the Second Boer War. Following their defeat, the British
delayed at the Modder River for another two months while
reinforcements were brought forward. General Lord Roberts was
appointed Commander in Chief of the British forces in South Africa
and moved to take personal command of the front. He subsequently
lifted the siege of Kimberley and forced Cronje to surrender at
the Battle of Paardeberg.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Lawrence Of Arabia aka T. E. Lawrence Documentaries DVD, Download,
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Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 1917: The History Of The
Ottoman Empire: The Dissolution Of The Ottoman Empire (1908-1922):
The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The
European Theater Of World War I): The Middle Eastern Theater Of
World War I: The Battle Of Jerusalem: -- British Field Marshal
Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
On December 9, 1917, Allenby's XX Corps, XXI Corps and Desert
Mounted Corps British Empire forces, assisted by Arabic irregulars
under the direction of T. E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence Of Arabia)
captured Jerusalem, Palestine from Ottoman Empire forces. The
Battle of Jerusalem occurred during the British Empire's
"Jerusalem Operations" when fighting began November 17
and continued after the surrender of Jerusalem until December 30,
1917, fought to secure the final objective of the Southern
Palestine Offensive during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Eamon
de Valera Documentary DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, December 11, 2025December 11-12, 1920: 20th Century
Revolutions: Ireland: The History Of Ireland: Irish Nationalism:
The Irish Revolutionary Period (1912-1923): The Irish War Of
Independence (January 21, 1919 - July 11, 1921) (The Anglo-Irish
War, Irish: Cogadh Na Saoirse): The Burning Of Cork (Irish: Do
Chorcai): -- In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush of a British
Auxiliary patrol in the city which killed an Auxiliary and wounded
twelve, British Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and British soldiers
loot and burn numerous buildings in the centre of Cork, Ireland's
third-biggest city. Many civilians report being beaten, shot at,
robbed and verbally abused by British forces. Firefighters
testified that British forces hindered their attempts to tackle
the blazes by intimidation, cutting their hoses and shooting at
them. Two unarmed IRA volunteers were also shot dead at their home
in the north of the city. More than 40 business premises, 300
residential properties, the City Hall and Carnegie Library were
destroyed by fire, some of which was started by incendiary bombs.
The economic damage was estimated at over 3M Pounds Sterling
(equivalent to 155M Euros in 2019), while 2,000 were left jobless
and many more became homeless. British forces carried out many
similar reprisals on Irish civilians during the war, notably the
Sack of Balbriggan three months before, but the burning of Cork
was one of the most substantial. The British government at first
denied that its forces had started the fires, and blamed the IRA.
Later, a British Army inquiry concluded that a company of
Auxiliaries were responsible.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Causes
Of World War II Documentaries DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 1937: The Interwar Period
(The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars):
The Italo-Ethiopian War (The Italo-Abyssinian War, The Italian
Invasion Of Ethiopia, The Italian Invasion Of Abyssinia): The
Second Italo-Ethiopian War (The Second Italo-Abyssinian War): The
League Of Nations (French: Societe Des Nations) (LN, LoN, LON,
SdN, SDN): -- Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini withdraws
Italy completely from the League Of Nations in disgrace in
retaliation for The League Of Nations vote that same day to
condemn Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. Mussolini, upon
invading Ethiopia, had promptly declared his own "Italian
Empire." Because the League Of Nations afforded Ethiopia's
leader Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia the opportunity to
address the assembly directly on June 30, 1936 to appeal for aid
from the League Italy's invasion of his country, Italy had already
withdrawn its League delegation on May 12 1936. The speech had
made the emperor an icon for anti-fascists around the world, and
Time named him "Man of the Year". He failed, however, to
get what he most needed: the League agreed to only partial and
ineffective sanctions on Italy. Only six nations in 1937 did not
recognize Italy's occupation: China, New Zealand, the Soviet
Union, the Republic of Spain, Mexico and the United States.
Italy's withdrawal from the League on December 11, 1937 finalized
Italy's involvement from the League.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Struggles For Poland TV Series + Bonus MP4 Video Download DVD Set
Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 1941: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The Polish Government-In-Exile's Declaration Of War
Against Japan: -- The Polish Government-In-Exile, following the
Americans' declaration of war on the Empire Of Japan in the wake
of the attack on Pearl Harbor, declares war on the Empire Of
Japan. Officially known as the Government Of The Republic Of
Poland In Exile, was the government in exile of Poland formed in
the aftermath of the Invasion Of Poland of September 1939, and the
subsequent occupation of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union,
which brought to an end the Second Polish Republic. Despite the
occupation of Poland by hostile powers, the government-in-exile
exerted considerable influence in Poland during World War II
through the structures of the Polish Underground State and its
military arm, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) resistance. Abroad,
under the authority of the government-in-exile, Polish military
units that had escaped the occupation fought under their own
commanders as part of Allied forces in Europe, Africa, and the
Middle East. After the war, as the Polish territory came under the
control of the People's Republic of Poland, a Soviet satellite
state, the government-in-exile remained in existence, though
largely unrecognized and without effective power. Only after the
end of Communist rule in Poland did the government-in-exile
formally pass on its responsibilities to the new government of the
Third Polish Republic in December 1990. The government-in-exile
was based in France during 1939 and 1940, first in Paris and then
in Angers. From 1940, following the Fall of France, the government
moved to London, and remained in the United Kingdom until its
dissolution in 1990.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV
Music & Dance Shows #6 Shindig DVD, Video Download, USB Flash
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Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 1964: #DOTD: #RIP: Sam
Cooke, African American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. (b.
January 22, 1931) #dies when he is shot and killed at the Hacienda
Motel in Los Angeles, California. He is buried at Forest Lawn
Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Samuel Cook is influential
as both a singer and composer, and is commonly known as the King
of Soul for his distinctive vocals and importance within popular
music. He began singing as a child and joined The Soul Stirrers
before moving to a solo career where he scored a string of hit
songs like "You Send Me", "Wonderful World",
"Chain Gang", and "Twistin' the Night Away".
His pioneering contributions to soul music contributed to the rise
of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield,
Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Billy Preston, and popularized the
likes of Otis Redding and James Brown. AllMusic biographer Bruce
Eder wrote that Cooke was "the inventor of soul music",
and possessed "an incredible natural singing voice and a
smooth, effortless delivery that has never been surpassed".
On December 11, 1964, at the age of 33, Cooke was shot and killed
by Bertha Franklin, the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los
Angeles, California. After an inquest, the courts ruled Cooke's
death to be a justifiable homicide. Since that time, the
circumstances of his death have been called into question by
Cooke's family.
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Today's
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Alternative Revolver Beatles MP3 CD Audio Download USB Flash Drive
Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Ravi
Shankar, Indian American sitar virtuoso and composer, the world's
best-known export of North Indian classical music in the second
half of the 20th century, who influenced many musicians in India
and throughout the world (b. April 7, 1920) #dies at Scripps
Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego, California at around
16:30 PST after undergoing heart valve replacement surgery, aged
92. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered in 3
locations: His birthplace in India, in the Pacific Ocean off the
coast of San Diego, and in the hills of the San Fernando Valley
region. Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation:_RahBEE SHANK-Ehr) was
born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury (sometimes spelled as Rabindra
Shankar Chowdhury) in Benares (now Varanasi), then the capital of
the eponymous princely state, into a Bengali Brahmin family. He
spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the
dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in
1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan.
After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer,
creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was
music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing
Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the
1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with
violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison.
His influence on Harrison helped popularize the use of Indian
instruments in Western pop music in the latter half of the 1960s.
Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar
and orchestra, and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From
1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the
upper chamber of the Parliament of India. He continued to perform
until the end of his life. Shankar was awarded India's highest
civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.
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Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! H. C.
Westermann, highly influential and important American sculptor and
printmaker whose art constituted a scathing commentary on
militarism and materialism (d. November 3, 1981) is #born Horace
Clifford "Cliff" Westermann in Los Angeles, California.
His sculptures frequently incorporated traditional carpentry and
marquetry techniques. From the late 1950s until his death in 1981,
Westermann worked with a number of materials and formal devices to
address a range of personal, literary, artistic, and pop-cultural
references. The artist's sculptural oeuvre is distinguished by its
intricate craftsmanship, in which wood, metal, glass, and other
materials are laboriously hand-tooled, and by its ability to
convey an offbeat, often humorous, individualistic sensibility.
Westermann's sculptures reveal not only the influence of craft
traditions, but also of varied art historical precedents. The
artist's ability to convey subtle and uncanny effects through the
presentation of seemingly simple objects has often led critics to
compare his work to that of Surrealist-inspired artists such as
Joseph Cornell. However, Westermann's work encompasses elements
from a broad and diverse range of artistic practices, including
Assemblage, Dada, and Folk Art. His sculptures, moreover, point to
minimal and post-minimal art of the late 1960s and beyond, in
terms of their rigorous craftsmanship, formal sophistication,
unconventional use of materials, and sense of humor. He died at
Danbury Hospital in Connecticut from a heart attack several days
prior, aged 58. His burial details are not publicly disclosed.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Bettie
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Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 2008: #DOTD: #RIP: Bettie
Page, American model and beauty known as the "Queen Of
Pinups", who gained a significant profile in the 1950s, and
whose jet-black hair, blue eyes, and trademark fringe hair cut
have influenced artists for generations (b. April 22, 1923) #dies
at age 85 after her family eventually agreed to discontinue life
support in a Los Angeles hospital; her long-time frend and
business agent Mark Roesler stated that Page had hospitalized in
critical condition on December 6, and was quoted by the Associated
Press as saying Page had a heart attack, as well as by Los Angeles
television station KNBC as claiming Page had pneumonia. She is
buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Brentwood,
California; her tombstone bears the heading "Queen Of
Pin-Ups". She was born Bettie Mae Page in Nashville,
Tennessee. Page lived in California in her early adult years
before moving to New York City to pursue work as an actress.
There, she began to find work as a pin-up model, and posed for
dozens of photographers throughout the 1950s. Page was "Miss
January 1955", one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for
Playboy magazine. "I think that she was a remarkable lady, an
iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in
fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society,"
said Playboy founder Hugh Hefner to the Associated Press in 2008.
In 1959, Page converted to evangelical Christianity and worked for
Billy Graham, studying at Bible colleges in Los Angeles and
Portland, Oregon, with the intent of becoming a missionary. The
latter part of Page's life was marked by depression, violent mood
swings, and several years in a state psychiatric hospital
suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. After years of obscurity,
she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1980s.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Martin
Mull Presents The History Of White People In America DVD MP4 USB
Today, December 11, 2025December 11, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Teri
Garr, American dancer, actress, comedian and beauty, known for her
comedic roles in film and television in the 1970s and 1980s who
often played women struggling to cope with the life-changing
experiences of their husbands, children or boyfriends, receiving
nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award
for her performance in Tootsie (1982) (d. October 29, 2024) is
#born Terry Ann Garr in Los Angeles to Eddie Garr (born Edward Leo
Gonnoud), a vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor, and Phyllis
Lind Garr (born Emma Schmotzer),, a dancer, Rockette, wardrobe
mistress, and model. Her father was of Irish descent and her
maternal grandparents were Austrian immigrants. Garr had two older
brothers, Ed and Phil. Garr was raised primarily in North
Hollywood, California. She was the third child of a comedic-actor
father and a studio costumier mother. In her youth, Garr trained
in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a
teenager with small roles in television and film in the early
1960s, including appearances as a dancer in nine Elvis Presley
musicals. After spending two years attending college, Garr left
Los Angeles and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in
New York City. She had her breakthrough appearing in the episode
Assignment: Earth of Star Trek in 1968. After gaining attention
for her 1974 roles in Francis Ford Coppola's thriller The
Conversation and Mel Brooks's comedy horror Young Frankenstein,
Garr became increasingly successful with major roles in Carl
Reiner's comedy Oh, God! and Steven Spielberg's science fiction
film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (both 1977) and The Black
Stallion (1979). In the 1980s, she was nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her comedic role as an
acting student in Sydney Pollack's romantic comedy Tootsie, and
enjoyed leading roles in Coppola's musical drama One from the
Heart (1982), Mr. Mom (1983), and Firstborn (1984). She later
acted in films such as Martin Scorsese's black comedy After Hours
(1985), Let It Ride (1989), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Pret-a-Porter
(1994), Michael (1996), and Ghost World (2001). Garr's quick wit
and charming banter made her a sought-after guest on late-night
shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late
Night with David Letterman. On television, she took a guest role
as Phoebe Abbott in the sitcom Friends (1997-98). In 2002, Garr
announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the
symptoms of which had affected her ability to perform. She retired
from acting in 2011, thirteen years before her death. Teri Garr
died from complications of multiple sclerosis at her home in Los
Angeles surrounded by family and friends at the age of 79. Her
cremains are buried next to her mother at San Fernando Mission
Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California.
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