December

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons A decade after becoming the leader of a portion of his grandfather Genghis Khan’s tribe of warriors, Kublai Khan started the Yuan Dynasty in the isolated…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Twelve days after launching from Kennedy Space Center, the three-man crew of Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on December 19, 1972. The last…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Of all the scientific advancements in the 20th century, only one could be said to have created a massive shift in the political and social realms…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Days after Japan attacked the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, American pilots secretly ordered to China by President Franklin Roosevelt took to the skies…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Just shy of an hour into a long transatlantic flight between London’s Heathrow Airport and John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, Pan Am Flight…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Six weeks after the Berlin Wall came down, the last symbolic barrier between East and West Germany was destroyed on December 22, 1989: the Brandenburg Gate,…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Near the Tyolomqa River along the southeastern edge of Eastern Cape, South Africa, a fisherman by the name of Hendrick Goosen brought in a strange-looking fish…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the midst of the Great War, a simple act of humanity emerged from the trenches of combat on December 24, 1914. The “Christmas Truce,” a…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the vacuum created by the crash of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, a number of tribal kings from diverse regions fought for control…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The romance involved with the concept of Manifest Destiny — the idea the United States should stretch from sea to shining sea — took hold of…