THIS DAY IN OUR PAST TODAY’S GEM

The following events took place on December 2 in the years identified:

1948:

Nearly 200 Jamaicans arrive from Panama on the Pacific Steam Navigation Company liner Reina del Pacifico.

1948:

Trans-Canada Airlines inaugurates its bi-weekly Caribbean Service, when a luxurious DC-4 M2 ‘North Star’skyliner lands at the Palisadoes Airport from Montreal via Toronto and Nassau with passengers, mails and freight.

1959:

A woman presides over the House of Representatives for the first time in its 15-year existence. She is Iris King, the People’s National Party’s member for Kingston West Central, who is also the mayor of Kingston. On the summons of the Speaker, King goes into the Speaker’s chair and all members of the House rose to their feet respectfully.

1960:

Thousands of spectators in downtown Kingston and other parts of the Corporate Area are treated to a brilliant display of formation flying, loops, rolls, corkscrew changeovers and cloverleaf turns, when the famous USAF Thunderbirds aerobatic team perform over the Kingston Harbour.

1971:

Camperdown improves their Walker Cup chances with a 3-1 victory over St Jago in a Manning Cup schoolboy football ball at the National Stadium.

1971:

Kingston College wins the Kellal Cup Table Tennis Championships by defeating Calabar High 4-3.

– THE GLEANER ARCHIVES

“In the eyes of a child the small seems great.

In the eyes of the weak Small difficulties seem enormous

And all prospects dim and bleak.”