Good Morning *December Edition*

Rise and Shine folks

1135 Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise.

1581 Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured.

1861 The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000.

1862 President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress.

1863 Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington.

1881 Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.

1900 Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin.

1905 Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace.

1908 The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria's action in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

1909 President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua's Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries.