12-09-2006, 03:05 PM
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December 9th
1608 ~ Birthday of John Milton, Poet & Writer.
1793 ~ New York City's first daily newspaper, the “American Minerva”, is established by Noah Webster.
1868 ~ Birthday of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1918.
1937 ~ Battle of Nanjing began. The Rape of Nanjing followed.
1950 ~ Harry Gold sentenced to thirty years in jail for stealing United States nuclear weapon secrets for the Soviet Union.
1961 ~ Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
1987 ~ First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
1992 ~ Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.
1996 ~ Death of Mary Leakey, Archeologist & Anthropologist.
2004 ~ Canada's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual marriage was constitutional.
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