This Day…

1907 – Maria Montessori opens her 1st Montessori school, in Rome

1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

1860 – Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for eight years on the Underground Railroad

1909 – American socialist women denounce suffrage as a movement of the middle class.

1903 – Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers.

1933 – Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam

1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada

1965 – “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, the first Peanuts animated special premieres on CBS in the US

On December 7, 1941 – Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl HarborExternal, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. A total of twelve ships sank or were beached in the attack and nine additional vessels were damaged. More than 160 aircraft were destroyed and more than 150 others damaged.