In a letter dated December 3, 1776, General George Washington
wrote to Congress from his headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey,
to report that he had transported much of the Continental Army’s
stores and baggage across the Delaware River to Pennsylvania.
His famous crossing of the Delaware would come less than one
month later.
On December 3, 1947, Marlon Brando’s famous cry of “STELLA!”
first booms across a Broadway stage, electrifying the audience
at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre during the first-ever performance
of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire.
A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed
plays of the twentieth century and Williams’s most popular work.
The 23-year-old Brando played the rough, working-class Polish-
American Stanley Kowalski, and his violent clash with Blanche
DuBois (played on Broadway by Jessica Tandy),
Jessica Tandy with Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named
Desire.
Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Marlon Brando.
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From Act Three, Scene Five.
On December 2, 2001, the Enron Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court, sparking one of the
largest corporate scandals in U.S. history.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)
(FOX NEWS) – Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American
seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat
to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public
bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.
"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in," Parks said of
her decision to challenge local authority.
Black bus riders were required to sit in the back of the bus,
and to also give up those seats to White riders if the front
seats were filled, under local Montgomery ordinance.
The case became bogged down in the state courts, but the
federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle resulted
in a November 1956 decision that bus segregation is
unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of
the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala. after her arrest for civil disobedience.
(FOX NEWS) – Retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,
the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died.
The high court said O’Connor died Friday morning in Phoenix
of complications related to advanced dementia, probably
Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.
O’Connor is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger as
her husband John O’Connor looks on.
