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December 6th
1768 ~ First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published.
1884 ~ The Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, banning slavery, was ratified.
1889 ~ Death of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
1920 ~ Birthday of Dave Brubeck, jazz musician.
1929 ~ Birthday of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor.
1933 ~ James Joyce’s novel Ulysses was judged not obscene.
1947 ~ Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Truman.
1989 ~ Marc Lépine killed 14 women in Montreal, Quebec.
1992 ~ In Ayodhya, India, Hindus demolished the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque.
2002 ~ Death of Philip Berrigan, civil rights activist.
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12-07-2006, 06:41 AM
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12-08-2006, 06:07 AM
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December 8th
1542 ~ Birthday of Mary Queen of Scots.
1864 ~ Death of George Boole, Mathematician.
1925 ~ Birthday of Sammy Davis Jr., Actor & Singer.
1939 ~ Birthday of James Galway, Irish flutist.
1978 ~ Death of Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel.
1980 ~ Mark Chapman murdered former Beatle John Lennon.
1987 ~ The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed.
1991 ~ Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine signed an agreement ending the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993 ~ U.S. participation in The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed into law by President Clinton.
1994 ~ U.S. participation in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was signed into law by President Clinton.
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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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12-10-2006, 06:27 PM
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December 10th
1815 ~ Birthday of Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer.
1822 ~ Birthday of César Franck, Composer & Organist.
1830 ~ Birthday of Emily Dickinson, Poet.
1896 ~ Death of Alfred Nobel, chemist, founder of the Nobel Prize.
1901 ~ Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1941 ~ Japanese forces landed in the Philippines, captured Guam and sank the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
1953 ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1965 ~ The Grateful Dead played their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
1978 ~ Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2002 ~ The High Court of Australia hands down its judgment in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.
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12-11-2006, 06:20 AM
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December 11th
1725 ~ Birthday of George Mason, "Father of the Bill of Rights".
1803 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer.
1882 ~ Birthday of Max Born, physicist and 1954 Nobel laureate.
1918 ~ Birthday of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, 1970 Nobel laureate.
1931 ~ The Statute of Westminster gave legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland.
1941 ~ Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
1943 ~ King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1981 ~ Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes UN Secretary-General.
1994 ~ A small bomb exploded on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. The bombing was a test of explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka.
1994 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
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12-12-2006, 06:14 AM
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December 12th
1531 ~ Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City.
1911 ~ The capital of India moved from Calcutta to New Delhi.
1913 ~ Mona Lisa recovered in Florence, 2 years and 3 months after it was stolen.
1915 ~ Birthday of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor.
1927 ~ Birthday of Robert Noyce, one of the men credited with the invention of the integrated circuit.
1963 ~ Kenya gained its independence from the UK. Uhuru!
1967 ~ Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones avoided a prison term for narcotics.
1996 ~ Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt.
1999 ~ Death of Joseph Heller, Author.
2003 ~ Death of Keiko, the killer whale in the “Free Willy” movies.
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December 13th
1204 ~ Death of Maimonides, Sephardi Philosopher.
1577 ~ Sir Francis Drake began his circumnavigation from Plymouth, England.
1642 ~ Abel Janszoon Tasman reached New Zealand.
1784 ~ Death of Samuel Johnson, Essayist.
1903 ~ Birthday of Carlos Montoya, Spanish-American guitarist who popularized flamenco guitar music.
1925 ~ Birthday of Dick Van Dyke, Actor & Comedian.
1941 ~ Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
1981 ~ Martial law imposed in Poland to try to control the Solidarity labor movement.
1996 ~ Kofi Annan elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2003 ~ Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured near Tikrit.
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