December 1: In Montgomery, Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the front section of a bus. (1955)

December 2: Barney B. Clark receives the world’s first artificial heart transplant. (1982)

December 5: The 21st Amendment repeals Prohibition. (1933)

December 7: Pearl Harbor was bombed in a surprise Japanese attack. It marked the U.S. entry into WWII. (1941)

December 8: John Lennon was assassinated in New York City. (1980)

December 15: Gone With the Wind premiered in Atlanta. (1939)

December 17: The Wright Brothers made their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. (1903)

December 28: William F. Semple patented chewing gum.  (1869)

December 30: Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems. (1924) Yes, the Hubble telescope was later named after him.

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