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December 12 1923, Bob Barker was born.
He is most known for his hosting job on the television game show, The Price is Right.
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December 10 1950, Human Rights day was first celebrated.
Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The formal inception of Human Rights Day dates from 1950, after the Assembly passed a resolution inviting all States and interested organisations to adopt 10 December of each year as Human Rights Day.
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December 8 1980, John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
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December 7 1842, New York Philharmonic played their first concert.
The first concert of the Philharmonic Society took place in the Apollo Rooms on lower Broadway before an audience of 600.
The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the leading American orchestras popularly referred to as the “Big Five”. The orchestra is one of America’s oldest musical institutions. Its record-setting 14,000th concert was given in December 2004.
The New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842 by the American conductor Ureli Corelli Hill, with the aid of the Irish composer William Vincent Wallace. The orchestra was then called the Philharmonic Society of New York. It was the third Philharmonic on American soil since, and had as its intended purpose, “the advancement of instrumental music."
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December 5 1901, Walt Disney (1901-1966) was born.
Animator, voice actor, producer, and entertainer who founded The Walt Disney Company and created the iconic character Mickey Mouse.
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December 4 1954, The first Burger King is opened in Miami.
Burger King is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world. The original home of The Whopper.
The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954, its two Miami-based franchisees, David Edgerton and James McLamore, purchased the company and renamed it Burger King.
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December 3 1967, At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christian Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
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December 2 1981, Britney Spears was born.
Pop star whose first two albums, Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!…I Did it Again (2001), both sold over 20 million copies worldwide. She released another six albums from 2001 to 2013
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December 1 1966, The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is erected in Gävle.
The Gävle Goat is a traditional Christmas display erected annually at Slottstorget (“Castle Square”) in central Gävle. It is a giant version of a traditional Swedish Yule Goat figure made of straw, and is erected each year at the beginning of Advent over a period of two days by local community groups.
In 1966, an advertising consultant, Stig Gavlén, came up with the idea of making a giant version of the traditional Swedish Yule Goat and placing it in the square. The design of the first goat was assigned to the then chief of the Gävle fire department, Gavlén’s brother Jörgen Gavlén. The construction of the goat was carried out by the fire department, and they erected the goat each year from 1966 to 1970 and from 1986 to 2002.
The first goat was financed by Harry Ström. On 1 December 1966, a 13-metre (43 ft) tall, 7-metre (23 ft) long, 3-tonne goat was erected in the square. On New Year’s Eve, the goat was burnt down. Almost every year, the goat gets burned down by vandals.
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November 30 1982, Michael Jackson’s second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history.
Michael Jackson’s Thriller, estimated to have sold between 51 to 65 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album. Although sales estimates for Thriller have been as high as 110 million copies, these sales figures are unreliable.
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