MessageToEagle.com – On Christmas Day, December 25, 1950, four young Scots retrieved the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey. Used as the coronation stone of the Scottish kings
MessageToEagle.com – On December 24, 1165, William I, the second son of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon succeeded his brother Malcolm IV as King of Scotland. He
MessageToEagle.com – Yohl Ik’nal was queen of the Maya city-state of Palenque, who ruled until her death in 604. She was also known as Lady Kan Ik. She ascended to the
MessageToEagle.com – On December 22, 1911, Grote Reber, amateur astronomer and radio engineer was born in Chicago. He was a ham radio operator, studied radio engineering, and worked
MessageToEagle.com – On December 21, 1872 the HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth, England, in the first scientific voyage, which would last almost three and a half years. This
MessageToEagle.com – On December 20, 1963, two years after the beginning of the construction of the Berlin Wall, 4,000 West Berlin citizens were allowed for the first time
MessageToEagle.com – On December 19, 1154, Henry II (also known as Henry Curtmantle) was crowned King of England. Henry II was born in 1133 in France and was
MessageToEagle.com – On December 18, 1888, the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado, was discovered by rancher Richard Wetherill (1858- 1910) and his brother-in-law Charlie Mason, who were
MessageToEagle.com – On December 17, 1790, the Sun Stone (Stone of the Five Eras), or sometimes (erroneously) called Aztec calendar stone was rediscovered during repairs in Mexico City.
MessageToEagle.com – On December 16, 1707, Mount Fuji – Japan’s tallest mountain erupted. It was the last confirmed eruption of Mount Fuji, the highest volcano and highest peak in
MessageToEagle.com – On December 15, 1612, Simon Marius (1573 – 1624) mathematician and astronomer, independently rediscovered the “Nebula in the Girdle of Andromeda”, actually the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).
MessageToEagle.com – On December 14, 1883, Ueshiba Morihei – the ‘Founder of Aikido’, was born in what is now Tanabe, Japan. Until his death in 1969 at the age
MessageToEagle.com – On December 13, 1577, Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth with a five-ship flotilla on the dangerous path that killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan 50 years
MessageToEagle.com – On Dec 12, 627 AD, the Battle of Nineveh was fought between the forces of the Byzantine Empire, under the Emperor Haraclius, and those of the
MessageToEagle.com – On December 11, 1792, King Louis XVI of France was put on trial for treason by the National Convention. Louis XVI (also known as Louis Capet)
MessageToEagle.com – On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is considered the world’s most translated document according to the Guinness
MessageToEagle.com – On December 9, 1824, the Battle of Ayacucho was fought on the high plateau near Ayacucho, Peru. It was one of the Latin-American wars of independence and
MessageToEagle.com – On December 8, 1542, Mary Queen of Scots was born. She represents one of history’s true enigmas. Historians know plenty about what she did and where
MessageToEagle.com – On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted a surprise military strike against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack was
MessageToEagle.com – On December 5, 771, Charlemagne became the King of the Franks, after the death of his brother Carloman. Charlemagne, son of King Pepin the Short succeeded
MessageToEagle.com – On December 4, 1154, the only English Pope in the whole history of the Catholic Church was elected, from 1154 to 1159. His birth name was
MessageToEagle.com – On December 3, 1872, a translation from Babylonian cuneiform tablets of the Chaldean account of the deluge was read by George Smith (1840 – 1876), English
MessageToEagle.com – On December 2, 1594, died Gerardus Mercator, the best-known mapmaker of all time. He was born on March 5, 1512, in Rupelmonde, Flanders (now Belgium). After
