Today in #history: In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch. (1923).

Electoral results of the US presidential election of 1800.

The 1605 Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt by pro-Catholic conspirators to blow up the English Parliament on 5 November and kill King James I of England (r. 1603-1625)

The president's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, commented that this photo by Anthony Berger was 'the most satisfactory likeness' of his father (Credit: The Library of Congress)

#BirthsOnThisDay, December 12

1950 Rajinikanth
Indian actor, screenwriter, producer

1923 Bob Barker
American game show host

1915 Frank Sinatra
American singer, actor

1881 Harry Warner
Polish/American businessman, co-founded Warner Bros.

1863 Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter

#DeathsOnThisDay, December 12

2007 Ike Turner
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1999 Joseph Heller
American author, playwright

1985 Anne Baxter
American actress

1968 Tallulah Bankhead
American actress

1889 Robert Browning
English poet

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12 December 1963 Kenyan independence

Kenya declared its independence from the UK.

12 December 2009 Houston, Texas elects Annise Parker

The City of Houston becomes the most populous city in the United States to have an openly gay mayor.

12 December 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing

A bomb exploded at the building of the National Agrarian Bank, Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and injuring 88.

Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge loved to press the security button and hide under the table, making the security team search for him in a panic.

Births On This Day, December 13

1989 Taylor Swift
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress

1948 Ted Nugent
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor

1936 Aga Khan IV
Swiss/French 49th Nizari Ismaili Imam

1902 Talcott Parsons
American sociologist

1818 Mary Todd Lincoln
American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States

Deaths On This Day, December 13

2010 Richard Holbrooke
American journalist, banker, diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations

2005 Stanley Williams
American gang leader, co-founded the Crips

1944 Wassily Kandinsky
Russian/French painter

1784 Samuel Johnson
English author, lexicographer

1204 Maimonides
Spanish rabbi, philosopher

13 December 2003 Saddam Hussein captured

Saddam Hussein, the fifth president of Iraq, was found hiding in a camouflaged hole in the ground and was captured by American forces near Tikrit, Iraq. The military operation that led to his capture was called Operation Red Dawn. He was subsequently handed over to the interim Iraqi government. After a trial where he was found guilty of crimes against humanity, he was executed 3 years after his capture in December 2006.

#BirthsOnThisDay, December 14

1988 Vanessa Hudgens
American actress, singer

1966 Fabrizio Giovanardi
Italian race car driver

1947 Dilma Rousseff
Brazilian politician, economist, 36th President of Brazil

1546 Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer, chemist

1503 Nostradamus
French astrologer

#DeathsOnThisDay, December 14

2013 Peter O'Toole
Irish actor

1989 Andrei Sakharov
Russian physicist

1947 Stanley Baldwin
English politician

1943 John Harvey Kellogg
American surgeon, co-created Corn flakes

1799 George Washington
American general, politician, 1st President of the United States

14 December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.