Remembering the remarkable moments on December 12 in history

In this video, we're sharing some important facts and events about December 12 in history. This Date In History is a great resource for anyone looking to learn more about this important day.

December 12 is a significant day in history, and we want to make sure you know all about it. In this video, we're sharing some important facts and events about December 12 in history.
1694 The Royal Society censures Edmond Halley for suggesting in a paper titled 'Some considerations about the cause of the universal deluge' that the story of Noah's flood could be an account of a cometary impact
1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
1791 Bank of North America opens at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia
1792 In Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1822 Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
1870 Joseph Rainey (South Carolina) becomes 1st African American to serve in US House of Representatives
1899 George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada
1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
1917 Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska
1936 Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1937 NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1946 'Tide' laundry detergent introduced
1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1955 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell
1957 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
1957 Willem J Kolff and his team at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic removed the heart from a dog and replaced it with a pneumatic pump which kept the dog alive for 90 minutes, proving the viability of the artificial heart
1959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
1961 German army officer Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr returned by kidnapper safter his father paid the $240,000 ransom demanded
1967 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black person be ranked #1 in tennis
1970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
1975 Sara Jane Moore pleads guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford (serves 32 years)
1977 "Saturday Night Fever", film starring John Travolta, with music by the Bee Gees, premiere
1980 Apple makes its initial public offering on the US stock market - 38 years later it would become the first US company valued at over $1 trillion 1980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
1991 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection 1991 Tampa Bay Buccaneer Dexter Manley retires after failing drug test
1995 Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)
1997 Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him
2000 US Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, settling the recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush's favor and thus handing him the presidency
2001 Winona Ryder is arrested on shoplifting charges in Beverly Hills, California
2015 First women ever elected in Saudi Arabia in municipal council elections
2018 Michael Cohen, former lawyer for US President Donald Trump sentenced to three years in prison for campaign-finance violations and tax fraud
2019 Deepest point on land on earth identified under Denman Glacier, east Antarctica at 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level
2022 Emma Tucker appointed editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, first woman to lead the paper [1] 2022 The city of Richmond, Virginia, capital of the Confederacy during the US Civil War, removes its last Confederate statue, of Ambrose P. Hill