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1833 ~ Birthday of Samuel Mudd, physician, convicted conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1860 ~ South Carolina became the first state to secede from the US.
1901 ~ Birthday of Robert Van de Graaff, Physicist & Inventor.
1968 ~ Death of John Steinbeck, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962.
1989 ~ American troops invaded Panama to remove dictator Manuel Noriega.
1991 ~ Paul Keating became the 24th Prime Minister of Australia.
1995 ~ IFOR (Implementation Force), a NATO-led multinational force, began peacekeeping in Bosnia. The task of IFOR was transfered to SFOR (Stabilisation Force) on 21-DEC-96, and transfered to EUFOR on 02-DEC-05.
1996 ~ Death of Carl Sagan, Astronomer & Writer.
1999 ~ Vermont's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.
1999 ~ Macau was returned to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
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