THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

                    DECEMBER

• Dec. 1 :  Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in "A Study in Scarlet." (1887)
• Dec. 2 :  Barney B. Clark receives the world's first artificial heart transplant.  (1982)
• Dec. 7 :  Martin Van Buren becomes the eight President of the United States, and the first             president to be born in this country.
• Dec. 7 :  Thomas Edison exhibited the phonograph in 1877.
• Dec. 13 : The Clip-on tie is created. (1928)
• Dec. 15 : Sioux Chief Sitting Bull was killed by Indian police. (1890)
• Dec. 15 : "Gone With the Wind" premiered in Atlanta, Georgia. (1939)
• Dec. 16 : Boston residents protesting British taxation threw tea overboard on a British ship.  The Boston Tea Party was the begining of the American fight for independence.
• Dec. 17 : The Wright Brothers made their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C.  (1903)
• Dec. 19 : Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol".  (1843)
• Dec. 21 : "Snow White" premiered at theaters.  (1937)
• Dec. 24 : Franz Joseph Gruber composed "Silent Night".  (1818)
• Dec. 26 : James Mason invents the coffee percolator.  (1865)
• Dec. 27 : Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.  (1932)
• Dec. 28 : William F. Semple patented chewing gum.  (1869)
• Dec. 30 : Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems. (1924)  Yes, the Hubble telescope was later named after him.