12-22-2006, 06:58 AM
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December 22nd
1858 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Puccini, Composer.
1864 ~ Savannah, Georgia fell to the Union army of General Sherman.
1880 ~ Death of George Eliot, Writer.
1944 ~ During the Battle of the Bulge, Germany demanded the surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium; Brigadier Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe reportedly replied: ''Nuts!''.
1989 ~ Ion Iliescu assumed executive power of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist dictatorship.
1989 ~ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opened, ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 ~ Lech Wałęsa sworn in as President of Poland.
2001 ~ The Afghan Northern Alliance, handed over power in Afghanistan to the government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
2001 ~ Richard Reid tried to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.
2001 ~ Cc the cat, the first cloned pet, was born.
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