History for December 12

History for December 12 - On-This-Day.com
Gustave Flaubert 1821, Edvard Munch 1863 - Norwegian artist, Edward G. Robinson 1893


Frank Sinatra 1915, Ed Koch 1924, Robert N. Noyce 1927


1800 - Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States.


1900 - Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel Corporation.


1915 - The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1, made its first flight.


1917 - Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town in Nebraska. The farm village was for wayward boys. In 1979 it was opened to girls.


1925 - The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA.


1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to a charge of trying to kill U.S. President Ford in San Francisco the previous September.


1982 - 20,000 women encircled Greenham Common air base in Britain in protest against proposed cite of U.S. Cruise missiles there.


1983 - Car bombs were set off in front of the French and U.S. embassies in Kuwait City. Shiite extremists were responsible for the five deaths and 86 wounded. Total of five bombs went off in different locations.