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#: Monthly stuff
12:Bingo's Birthday Month.
#: Events depending on weekdays
R(12/7) :Lover's Fair (Belgium) (1st Thursday).
#: Normal events
12/1/1878 :First phone in White House.
12/2/1927 :First Model A Ford sold ($395).
12/3/1967 :1st successful human heart transplant (lead by Dr. Barnard).
12/4/1930 :Vatican approved the rhythm method.
12/5/1854 :Folding theater chair patented.
12/6/1955 :Honus Wagner (born John Peter Wagner), baseball great, died.
12/7/1909 :Bakelite patented (Leo Baekeland).
12/8/1965 :First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Department (University of
          :Pennsylvania).
12/9/1792 :1st formal cremation of human remains in US (Henry Laurens).
12/10/1869:Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote.
12/11/1844:Anesthesia first used in dentistry.
12/12/1792:Beethoven paid Haydn $.19 for first music lesson.
12/13/1759:1st music store in America opened.
12/14/1946:NYC voted to be the UN headquarters.
12/15/1854:1st street cleaning machine used.
12/16/1773:Boston Tea Party (30-60 patriots and 342 chests of tea).
12/17/1790:Aztec calendar discovered.
12/18/1796:First Sunday newspaper ("Monitor," Baltimore).
12/19/1823:First state birth registration law enacted (Georgia).
12/20/1820:MO imposed a $1/yr bachelor's tax on men from 21 to 50.
12/21/1942:6 week Nevada divorces upheld by the Supreme Court.
12/22/1956:First gorilla born in captivity.
12/23/1617:1st penal colony in US established (VA).
12/24/1801:Skeleton of a mastodon unveiled (Charles Willson Peale).
12/25/1651:MA Gen. Ct. ordered a fine (5 shillings) for "observing any such
          :day as Xmas."
12/26/1865:Coffee percolator patented (James H. Nason, Franklin, MA).
12/27/1845:Ether 1st used as anesthetic in childbirth.
12/28/1869:Chewing gum patented (William F. Semple, MT. Vernon, OH).
12/29/1890:Battle of Wounded Knee (200 Indians killed).
12/30/1940:1st Los Angeles freeway dedicated (Arroyo Seco Parkway).
12/31/1935:Monopoly patented.