Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
December 12
| 1753 | George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain's claim to the entire Ohio River valley. | |
| 1770 | The British soldiers responsible for the "Boston Massacre" are acquitted on murder charges. | |
| 1862 | The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River. | |
| 1863 | Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners. | |
| 1901 | Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John's Newfoundland. | |
| 1927 | Communists forces seize Canton, China. | |
| 1930 | The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town. | |
| 1930 | The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany. | |
| 1931 | Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal rule over most of China. | |
| 1943 | The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad. | |
| 1943 | The exiled Czech government signs a treaty with the Soviet Union for postwar cooperation. | |
| 1956 | The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary. | |
| 1964 | Kenya becomes a republic. | |
| 1964 | Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon. | |
| 1967 | The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam. | |
| 1995 | Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco. | |
| Born on December 12 | ||
| 1745 | John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who negotiated treaties for the United States. | |
| 1805 | William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist who published The Liberator. | |
| 1821 | Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary, A Simple Heart). | |
| 1863 | Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist (The Scream). | |
| 1893 | Edward G. Robinson, actor famous for gangster roles. | |
| 1897 | Lillian Smith, Southern writer and civil rights activist. | |
| 1915 | Frank Sinatra, American pop singer and actor. | |
| 1927 | Robert Norton Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit. | |
| 1928 | Helen Frankenthaler, abstract painter. | |
| 1929 | John Osbourne, playwright and film producer (Look Back in Anger). | |
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