History for December 11 - On-This-Day.com
Fiorello La Guardia 1882, Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918, J. Frank Wilson 1941
Donna Mills 1943, Brenda Lee 1944, Teri Garr 1949
1769 - Edward Beran of London patented venetian blinds.
1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of Windsor.
1937 - The Fascist Council in Rome, withdrew Italy from the League of Nations.
1967 - The prototype of the Concorde was shown for the first time in Toulouse, France.
1998 - The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values.
1998 - Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton.
2001 - Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison ranches.
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