On this day: December 31Robert Mugabe assumes office as President of Zimbabwe (1987)
The Soviet Union is officially dissolved (1991)
Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President (1999)
The U.S. hands Panama Canal over to Panama (1999)
b: Frank Marshall Davis (1905); d: Joseph Yablonski (1969), Michael Kennedy (1997), Alan Cranston (2000)
On this day: December 30The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed (1922)
Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies (1924)
The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike (1936)
The U.S. halts heavy bombing of Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1972)
Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed (2006)
An Islamist jihadi suicide bomber kills 9 at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama signs into law a five-year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (2012)
b: Al Smith (1873), A.C. Townley (1880), Hideki Tōjō (1884); d: Saddam Hussein (2006)
Prog jihad against oppressive free-market competition drives fundamental transformation
On this day: January 29U.S. President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute (1834)
Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia in which they killed over 1 million civilians (1998)
In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea (2002)
President B. Hussein Obama signs his first bill, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2009)
President B. Hussein stages a typical, so-called "town hall meeting" of hand-selected unionists at the University of Tampa (2010)
b: Anton Chekhov (1860), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Gerda Steinhoff (1922); d: Harry Hopkins (1946), H. L. Mencken (1956)
On this day: December 28John C. Calhoun becomes the first U.S. Vice President to resign (1832)
Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army (1835)
Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea (1972)
The Endangered Species Act is passed in the U.S. (1973)
Senegalese Marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress (1974)
President B. Hussein Obama breaks a 3-day silence to make his first public remarks on the Christmas Day attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 by an Islamist jihadi terrorist (2009)
43 people are killed by an Islamist jihadi suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura (2009)
b: Woodrow Wilson (1856), Erich Mielke (1907); d: Victor Emmanuel III (1947)
On this day: December 27Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito (1923)
Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" in an effort to spread socialism to the countryside (1929)
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations (1945)
Soviet Union invades the so-called Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1979)
Palestinian jihadists kill eighteen people inside Rome, Italy and Vienna, Austria airports (1985)
The so-called People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the U.S. (2001)
al-Qaeda jihadi terrorists assassinate former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the second attempt in two months; a total of 164 people were killed and at least 450 wounded (2007)
On the Day of Ashura, Iran's Islamist government security forces fire upon peaceful demonstrators in Tehran (2009)
b: Thomas Menino (1942), Cokie Roberts (1943), Fabian Núñez (1966); d: Benazir Bhutto (2007)
The Muslim Brotherhood, embraced by Obama, has Nazi roots and partners with al-Qaeda
On this day: December 26The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die (1862)
The Communist Party of India is founded (1925)
The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the radical chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach (1966)
The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR (1991)
b: Mao Zedong (1893), Albert Gore Sr. (1907), Lynn Martin (1939), Gray Davis (1942); d: Dietrich Eckart (1923)
On this day: December 25George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey (1776)
42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers (1968)
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (1991)
Islamic jihadi terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts an attack against the U.S. while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit Metro Airport (2009)
Amidst another typically lavish vacation, President B. Hussein Obama and FLOTUS visit Marine Corps Base Hawaii (2010)
b: Philip Vera Cruz (1904); d: Charlie Chaplin (1977), Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu (1989)
BigGov zealots hell-bent on recreating the 1930'sThe dark influence of progressivism grows day by day, as those on the left fully realize the extent to which they have been given license to force their worldview on the rest of us.(full story "The Fight For Hearts And Minds" at americanthinker.com)
In the name of "equality," "fairness," or "rights," the Left's euphemisms for social deconstruction, they act in ways consciously designed to weaken or destroy moral order.
Racially-motivated crime spirals upward, enabled by officials who have expressly refused to hold blacks to account for criminal wrongdoing motivated by race. Illegal immigrants are considered virtuous and deserving of entitlements and rights that even native-born Americans do not possess.
The sexual preferences of a minuscule minority of the country have become so awe-inspiring to the left that the act of gay persons choosing with whom to have sex has elevated them to heroic status, while making anything other than a ringing endorsement of their choices punishable by censorship and bans.
Opinions are permitted as long as they promote the beliefs of the enforcers.
On this day: December 24Library of Congress burns (1851)
Albania becomes a so-called People's Republic (1924)
Libya becomes independent from Italy; Idris I is proclaimed King (1951)
The crew of the USS Pueblo is released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying (1968)
Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan "rebel" group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400 (2008)
President B. Hussein Obama and family arrive in Oahu, Hawaii for an unusually brief but lavish 10-day holiday vacation (2009)
b: Howard Hughes (1905), I. F. Stone (1907), Gene Sperling (1958); d: John Muir (1914), Harold Pinter (2008)
