DECEMBER AUTHORS AND HISTORY CALENDAR

 

                                         

                                                                  

December 3, 1818                  Illinois entered the Union

December 5, 1782                  Birth date of President Martin Van Buren

December 5, 1901                  Birth date of Walt Disney               

December 5, 1919                  Jim Kjelgaard

December 7, 1941                  Pearl Harbor bombed

December 8, 1765                  Birth date of inventor Eli Whitney

December 9, 1937                  Mary Downing Hahn

December 10, 1830                Birth date of Emily Dickinson

December 14, 1911                South Pole first reached

December 15                          Bill of Rights Day

December 16, 1773                Boston Tea Party

December 19, 1928                Eve Bunting

December 21, 1620                Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts

December 23, 1937                Avi

December 25                          Christmas Day

December 30, 1805                Rudyard Kipling