12-31-2006, 02:57 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: West central Illinois
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December 31st
404 ~ The last gladiatorial contest took place in Rome.
1879 ~ Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.
1880 ~ Birthday of George Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State, recipient of 1953 Nobel Peace Prize.
1938 ~ The first breath test for drivers, "drunkometer," was introduced.
1960 ~ The farthing coin ceased to be legal tender.
1964 ~ One of my boyhood heroes, Donald Campbell set the world water speed record, the only man to set both the world land and water speed records in the same year.
1980 ~ Death of Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer.
1987 ~ Robert Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe's president.
1995 ~ The last new Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip was published.
1999 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was designated acting president.
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