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#3681 · December 5, 2022, 5:58 pm

5 December 1899. Lancashire sugar magnate, Henry Tate, died (aged 80). He donated generously to charity. In 1889, he gave his collection of 65 contemporary paintings to the government. The result was The National Gallery of British Art, nowadays known as, Tate Britain. pic.twitter.com/QTYjtfWbjx

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 5, 2022

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#3682 · December 5, 2022, 5:59 pm

5 December 1921. The English Football Association (FA), announced that football was “quite unsuitable for females” and banned the sport. At the time, women’s football was hugely popular and attracted large crowds. The ban was only lifted in 1971. pic.twitter.com/nyFNkaTbQQ

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 5, 2022

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#3683 · December 5, 2022, 5:59 pm

5 December 1933. The 21st Amendment to the US constitution became effective, thereby ending alcohol prohibition, brought in under the 18th Amendment. pic.twitter.com/oXtaP6BEaa

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 5, 2022

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#3684 · December 5, 2022, 6:00 pm

6 December 1917. 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured after a devastating explosion aboard a French munitions ship in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The explosion flattened more than one square mile of the city of Halifax. pic.twitter.com/RWPclUq2ly

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 5, 2022

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#3685 · December 5, 2022, 6:00 pm

5 December 1945. 5 US Navy torpedo bombers (“Flight 19”), disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle. All 14 airmen on the flight were lost, along with 13 crew on a flying boat that went to search for them. The exact cause of the loss of Flight 19 has never been solved. pic.twitter.com/qtu11LK48n

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 5, 2022

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#3686 · December 5, 2022, 6:01 pm

The “Great Smog” of London began #OTD in 1952. pic.twitter.com/BRZGWH79Ti

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 5, 2022

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#3687 · December 5, 2022, 6:01 pm

5 December 1975. Ronnie O’Sullivan, one the best snooker players of all time, was born in Wordsley, West Midlands. He’s won the World Snooker Championship 7 times (2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2020 and 2022). He’s also a 7-time Masters champion, and a 7-time UK champion. pic.twitter.com/lwfonqOAOd

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 5, 2022

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#3688 · December 5, 2022, 6:02 pm

5 December 2013. Inspirational South African leader, Nelson Mandela, died (aged 95). He was President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the country’s first black head of state, and the first elected in a democratic election. His government dismantled the apartheid system. pic.twitter.com/MujdKm7gVq

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 5, 2022

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#3689 · December 5, 2022, 6:11 pm

Phillis Wheatley, the first female African American published poet, died #onthisday in 1784. An original signed copy of her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, published in 1773, is part of our collection.

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry: https://t.co/r5DVDMTXvU pic.twitter.com/Uz42VXuXhZ

— Museum of the American Revolution (@AmRevMuseum) December 5, 2022

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#3690 · December 5, 2022, 6:13 pm

💬 “Music is my life and my life is music.”
Mozart - who passed away on this day in 1791 - is arguably the most famous classical composer of all time.
🎧 Listen to our dedicated playlist and celebrate his genius: https://t.co/t4waVcjUKF pic.twitter.com/pAPsVKKTau

— Deutsche Grammophon (DG) (@DGclassics) December 5, 2022

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#3691 · December 6, 2022, 5:52 pm

December 6th

1240 Mongols led by Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kyiv after an 8 day siege; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive

1865 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery (except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,)

1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland

1998 Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela

2006 NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars

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#3692 · December 6, 2022, 5:53 pm

Did You Know?

Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., making it the tallest human-built structure in the world (overtaking Cologne Cathedral)

Today in History in 1884

Would You Believe?

Thomas Edison records himself reciting "Mary had a little lamb"

Today in History in 1877

https://www.onthisday.com/

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#3693 · December 6, 2022, 5:54 pm

This day 100 years ago – 6 December 1921 – the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed.

It offered the Irish Free State “the same constitutional status” as Canada or Australia, but allowed Northern Ireland to opt out of its jurisdiction.

It was later passed in the Dáil by 64-57 votes. pic.twitter.com/e7e8RQd78P

— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) December 6, 2021

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#3694 · December 6, 2022, 5:54 pm

Freedom fighter, undercover agent, abolitionist and suffragist, Harriet Tubman escaped enslavement for the second time #OTD in 1849. She went back to rescue many others: she was never caught again, and never lost an Underground Railroad 'passenger'. pic.twitter.com/fpF319V5at

— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) December 6, 2022

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#3695 · December 6, 2022, 5:55 pm

On this day in 1915, SCOTUS upheld a law that stripped American women of their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. U.S. men marrying foreign women were permitted to keep their citizenship. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/49RlCkqSxE

— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) December 6, 2022

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#3696 · December 6, 2022, 5:57 pm

6 December 1774. Austria became the first European nation to introduce a state education system. pic.twitter.com/Per2Qa0ExY

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 6, 2022

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#3697 · December 6, 2022, 5:57 pm

6 December 1865. The landmark 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, banning slavery, was ratified 8 months after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, who had championed the measure. pic.twitter.com/tsMG6hdpjU

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 6, 2022

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#3698 · December 6, 2022, 5:57 pm

6 December 1877. The first edition of The Washington Post was published. Readers got just 4 pages of news. The front page included news from Capitol Hill, and an update about the USS Huron shipwreck, which had killed 98 officers and crew. pic.twitter.com/CAh9WnK9EI

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 6, 2022

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#3699 · December 6, 2022, 5:58 pm

6 December 1897. The first fleet of motorised taxi cabs began operating in London. The 25 cabs in the fleet were manufactured by Walter C. Bersey’s, London Electrical Cab Company. pic.twitter.com/lqWG1THV1J

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 6, 2022

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#3700 · December 6, 2022, 5:58 pm

6 December 1907. In Monongah, West Virginia, USA, 361 people were killed in America’s worst mine disaster. The explosion occurred in the Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and No. 8 mines. The disaster led to greater regulation of safety measures in mines. pic.twitter.com/U1bU4ywoI4

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 6, 2022

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