December  

2nd
1930 The longest non-stop over water commercial flight occurs when Charles Lindbergh lands the Pan Am Kingston to Panama flight in Kingston Harbour.

1963 Hugh Shearer is elected Vice President of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, BITU.

3rd
1945 Judy Ann MacMillan is born to Dudley and Vida MacMillan.

1952   Dudley Thompson joins a team of international lawyers defending Jomo Kennyatta against charges of being members of the outlawed Mau Mau in Kenya.

5th
1937 Lascelles Chin is born in St Catherine to Leonard Chin and Florence Yee.

1947 Bruce Golding is born in St Catherine to Tacius and Enid Golding.

1957 Edith Clarke, anthropologist and first female member of the Legislative Council, publishes My Mother Who Fathered Me. The book is a sociological study of the Jamaican family.

6th
1952 The Students' Union Building on the campus of the University College of the West Indies is handed over to the University Authorities.

1984 Rita Humphries becomes the first woman elected as Chairman of the Jamaica Stock Exchange.

7th
1817 William Bligh dies at his home in London.

1935 Jamaican born Gleaner founder, Jacob deCordova, and his wife, Rebecca, are reburied at the State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Texas has passed legislation to honour those who contributed to its development.

10th
1835 Eight hundred Germans land at Rio Bueno to work on plantations in Trelawney, St James and Westmoreland.

1895 Alexander Bedward is arrested and sent to the mental asylum in response to his sermons.

1924 Michael Manley is born to Norman and Edna Manley.

1927 Marcus Garvey lands in Kingston after being deported from the US. He had served 3 years of a 5 year prison term in Atlanta having been charged with "mail fraud" in regard of his Black Star Lines.

1944 Trevor Munroe is born in St Andrew to Huntley and Muriel Monroe.

1954 Hi-Lo Supermarket, the first retail grocery with publicly offered shares, opens in Cross Roads.

11th
1882 Over 500 buildings are destroyed when fire engulfs a large section of Kingston.

1981  Jamaican born Trevor Berbick defeats Muhammad Ali in a heavyweight match in Nassau, Bahamas.

13th
1926 George Rhoden, member of Jamaica's first Olympic Team (1948) and winner of two Gold Medals in 1952, was born in Kingston.

16th
1780 a reward of one hundred pounds, declared by Royal Proclamation, is offered for the capture of infamous highwayman, Three-Finger Jack.

1899 Noel Coward, playwright and adopted Jamaican, is born in London.

1967 Donovan Bailey is born in Manchester.

17th
1964 The name "Jamaica House" has been selected from over 2,000 entries in a competition to name the official residence of the Prime Minister.

21st
1795  James Montague, Colonel of the Maroons of Trelawney Town, and Maj-Gen. George Walpole sign a treaty to end the Second Maroon War.

26th
1905 The new racetrack in Kingston, Knutsford Park, is opened. The inaugural race offers a purse of one hundred pounds.

1941 The first annual Christmas Pantomime, Jack & the Beanstalk, opens at the Ward Theatre.

30th
1780 An Act is passed declaring that no one shall be deemed a mulatto (mixed Negro & Caucasian) after the third generation but that "such a person shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of His Majesty's white subjects of the Island."

1815 South American exile, Simon Bolivar, narrowly escapes death as he is away when Spanish Assassins enter his home in Kingston.

1956 Sheryl Lee Ralph is born to Jamaican fashion designer, Ivy Ralph, and her American husband.

1961 Ben Johnson is born in Falmouth, Trelawny.

31st
1920 Thousands gather in August Town, St Andrew, to see Alexander Bedward ascend to Heaven as promised. After the failed flight he proclaims "My time has not yet come!"