12-11-2004, 03:51 PM
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December 11th
1725 ~ Birthday of George Mason, American patriot, "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 ~ Statute of Westminster gave legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland.
1937 ~ Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom became effective.
1941 ~ Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
1943 ~ Birthday of John Kerry, US politician.
1981 ~ Muhammad Ali's last fight – he lost to Trevor Berbick.
1994 ~ A small bomb exploded on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. The bombing done by Ramzi Yousef to test explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka.
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