12-18-2013, 06:07 AM
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December 17th
1778 ~ Birthday of Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist & physicist.
1830 ~ Death of Simón Bolívar, South American Liberator.
1843 ~ A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published.
1903 ~ The first controlled, powered heavier-than-air flight occurred when the Wright brothers took to the air, both of them twice at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1961 ~ India seized Goa from Portugal.
1969 ~ The USAF, in closing Project Blue Book, announced that its UFO investigations found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1976 ~ Birthday of Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Jaimee Foxworth, mainstrean & Porn Actress.
1982 ~ ”Tootsie” opened in theaters.
1989 ~ The pilot episode of The Simpsons aired.
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