This week that year: Dec. 8-14

Dec 8, 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dec 9, 1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

 

Dec 10, 1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.

 

Dec 11, 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

 

Dec 12, 1911 – Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.

 

Dec 13, 2003 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.

 

Dec 14, 1918 – Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.