December 11 - Cocoa II

Cocoa II

This Day In History

1282

Llywelyn the Last, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales.

1789

The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1909
Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

1925

Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.

1946

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.

1972

Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

1980

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U.S. Congress.

Famous Birthdays

1725

George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)

1781

Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)

1803

Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)

1838

John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (d. 1915)

1863

Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)

1882

Fiorello La Guardia, American statesman (d. 1947)

1918

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)

1931

Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress

1944

Brenda Lee, American singer

1962

Ben Browder, American actor