December 30: On This Progressive Day
The 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)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 92nd round of golf as POTUS, at the Klipper Golf Course, Hawaii, Hawaii (2011)
President B. Hussein Obama signs into law a five-year extension of the secrecy-shrouded Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (2012)
More than 100 people are killed when progressive, anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2013)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 157th round of golf as POTUS, at the Royal Hawaiian Golf Club, Hawaii (2013)
b: Al Smith (1873), A.C. Townley (1880), Hideki Tōjō (1884); d: Saddam Hussein (2006)
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December 29: On This Progressive Day
U.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 Obama stages a typical, so-called "town hall meeting" of hand-selected unionists at the University of Tampa (2010)
President B. Hussein Obama and FLOTUS interrupt their busy vacation for a photo-op at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, where they observe a moment of silence (2011)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 156th round of golf as POTUS, at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course, Hawaii (2013)
b: Anton Chekhov (1860), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Gerda Steinhoff (1922); d: Harry Hopkins (1946), H. L. Mencken (1956)
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December 28: On This Progressive Day
John 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 a progressive Trustafarian Islamic 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)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 26th round of golf as POTUS at Luana Hills Country Club, Hawaii (2009)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 57th round of golf as POTUS at Mid Pacific Country Club, Hawaii (2010)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 91st round of golf as POTUS at Ko'olau Golf Club, Hawaii (2011)
b: Woodrow Wilson (1856), Erich Mielke (1907); d: Victor Emmanuel III (1947)
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December 27: On This Progressive Day
Namba 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)
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December 26: On This Progressive Day
The 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)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 25th round of golf as POTUS at Ko'olau Golf Club, in Kaneohe, Hawaii (2009)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 56th round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course, in Marine Corps Base, Hawaii (2010)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 90th round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course, in Marine Corps Base, Hawaii (2011)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 111th round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course, in Marine Corps Base, Hawaii (2012)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 155th round of golf as POTUS at Ko'olau Golf Club, in Kaneohe, Hawaii (2013)
b: Mao Zedong (1893), Albert Gore Sr. (1907), Lynn Martin (1939), Gray Davis (1942); d: Dietrich Eckart (1923)
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December 25: On This Progressive Day
George 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)
Progressive trustafarian and Islamic jihadi terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, popularly referred to as the "Underwear Bomber", 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), Karl Rove (1950); d: Charlie Chaplin (1977), Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu (1989)
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December 24: On This Progressive Day
Library of Congress burns (1851)
Albania becomes a progressive 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 progressive-styled 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 at Plantation Estate (2009)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 89th round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (2011)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 110th round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (2012)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 154th round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (2013)
b: Howard Hughes (1905), I. F. Stone (1907), Gene Sperling (1958); d: John Muir (1914), Harold Pinter (2008)
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December 23: On This Progressive Day
The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson (1913)
The U.S. wins the release of 82 sailors by issuing a written apology to North Korea for spying on the Communist country (1968)
Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital (1979)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 52nd round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (2010)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 153nd round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (2013)
b: Edward R. Pease (1857); d: Anthony Fokker (1939), Hideki Tōjō (1948), Lavrentiy Beria (1953), Andrei Tupolev (1972)
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December 22: On This Progressive Day
The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson (1807)
The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR (1920)
Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity (1964)
Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany (1989)
Islamic jihadi terrorist Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63 (2001)
President B. Hussein Obama signs the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 before departing D.C. to join his family for an unusually brief but lavish 11-day vacation at Plantation Estate in Hawaii (2010)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 109th round of golf as POTUS at Klipper Golf Course at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (2013)
b: Jack Brooks (1922), Diane Sawyer (1945); d: Chico Mendes (1988)
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December 21: On This Progressive Day
William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620)
The U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General (1971)
Islamic jihadi terrorists explode Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270 (1988)
While on vacation, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 152nd round of golf as POTUS at Marine Corps Base, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (2013)
b: Roger Williams (1603), Lynn Frazier (1874), Joseph Stalin (1879), Kurt Waldheim (1918), William Usery, Jr. (1923), Jane Fonda (1937); d: Klara Pölzl (1907), Matthew Gannon (1988), Chuck McKee (1988), Ronald Lariviere (1988), Daniel O'Connor (1988), Saparmurat Niyazov (2008)
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December 20: On This Progressive Day
Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded (1917)
Germany's future progressive leader Adolph Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison (1924)
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed (1960)
The U.S. sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega (1989)
President B. Hussein Obama and FLOTUS stage a photo-op at Joint Base Andrews marking the return of the U.S. Forces – Iraq colors (2011)
President B. Hussein Obama holds his final "press appearance" of the year (2013)
b: Sidney Hook (1902), Jean Marchand (1918), Richard Cordtz (1921); d: Richard J. Daley (1976)
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December 19: On This Progressive Day
John Paul Stevens appointed as a justice of the SCOTUS (1975)
The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate (1998)
The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three (2000)
President B. Hussein Obama is selected as Time Magazine's Person of the Year (2012)
b: Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Phil Ochs (1940); d: Norman Thomas (1968), Dock Ellis (2008), Robert Bork (2012), Al Goldstein (2013)
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December 31: On This Progressive Day
