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December 11th is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 20 days remaining in the year.
1719 • The first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis was in New England. 1792 • France’s King Louis XVI went before the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the following January. 1816 • Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th state. 1844 • Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic. 1962 • Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada. 1972 • Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon. 1981 • Muhammad Ali fought his last fight. He lost his 61st fight to Trevor Berbick. 1987 • Charlie Chaplin’s trademark cane and bowler hat were sold at Christie’s for £82,500. 1998 • The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values. 2006 • The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud AhmaDickHead; Nations such as Apartheid Israel and the U.S. express concern. 2006 • Federal judge excuses Michael Legel from jury duty because he was arrested once for union activity and explained he does not trust judges or lawyers. 2006 • Tracey Legel works at the dialysis clinic in Pekin, IL where she is learning her new job. 2009 • Noah Legel returns home to Arizona. |