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Elections for president and the legislative assembly and were held in Costa Rica.Former president Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno (who had served from 1910 to 1914) won a plurality (46%) of the vote, not enough for an outright victory, but in voting for the 43 seats of the Asamblea Legislativa, Jiménez's Partido Republicano Nacional finished second (with 18 seats) to the Partido Agrícola of ...
Workers at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City discovered that there had been a mistake in the museum's exhibit of "The Last Works of Henri Matisse".For 47 days, beginning on October 18, Le Bateau had been on display, hanging upside-down, and 116,000 visitors had passed it before Mrs. Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake.
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 6, a 5-ton satellite, into orbit with two dogs, Pchelka ("Little Bee") and Mushka ("Little Fly"), plus mice, insects and plants.The next day, the capsule was reported to have burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere at too steep an angle. [1]
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
The Edward VIII abdication crisis finally came out into the open in Britain when the Bishop of Bradford Alfred Blunt, speaking at his diocesan conference about the upcoming royal coronation, said of the king that "Some of us wish that he gave more positive signs of his awareness."
The American radio soap opera Ma Perkins began a 27-season run with 7,065 episodes, starting on the NBC Red Network.It would last until November 25, 1960. [5]Tobacco Road, the most popular Broadway play and musical of the 1930s, premiered at the Theatre Mask in New York City with the first of 3,182 performances.
18 Wednesday, December 18, 1929. 19 Thursday, December 19, 1929. ... [18] The Reichstag adopted a bill requiring shops to close on Christmas Eve at 5 p.m. [19]
18 December 18, 1916 (Monday) 19 December 19, 1916 (Tuesday) 20 December 20, 1916 (Wednesday) ... [18] The last recorded stagecoach robbery occurred in Jarbidge, ...