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December 9 is the 343rd day of the year ... [18] [19] Births. Pre-1600 ... Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter and illustrator (d. 2009) 1915 – Eloise Jarvis McGraw, ...
The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Its opening day gross of $72.7 million broke The Dark Knight ' s record ($67.2 million) for the highest single-day tally of all time. It also broke Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ' s records ($102.7 million) for the highest weekend debut in November and for the holiday season as well as Twilight ' s records ($69.6 million) for the highest ...
The double Thanksgiving continued for two more years, and then on December 26, 1941, Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the official national Thanksgiving Day to the fourth Thursday in November starting in 1942 (there are usually four but sometimes five Thursdays in November, depending on the year).
[18] 2021 – A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central , Midwestern , and Southern regions of the United States . Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky , where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others.
The Politburo approved the proposal on December 14, followed by the CPSU Central Committee on December 26, and the announcement was made public on January 14. [ 19 ] Louis G. Cowan was fired from his job as President of the CBS Television Network as a result of the quiz show scandals of 1959.
A reenactment of the 1838 vow in the 1938 film, They Built a Nation The Day of the Vow (Afrikaans: Geloftedag) is a religious public holiday in South Africa.It is an important day for Afrikaners, originating from the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838, before which about 400 Voortrekkers made a promise to God that if he rescued them out of the hands of the approximately 20,000 Zulu ...
December 3 is the 337th day of the year ... 2009 – A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, ... [18] 1826 – George B. McClellan, American general and politician