12-15-2004, 06:34 AM
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December 15th
37 ~ Birthday of Nero, Roman emperor.
1702 ~ Forty-seven ronin, formerly in the service of Asano Naganori, assaulted the household of Kira Yoshinaka, and killed him in vengeance for their lord. Their display of the ideals of bushido became a national legend.
1832 ~ Birthday of Gustave Eiffel, civil engineer.
1852 ~ Birthday of Antoine Henri Becquerel, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.
1916 ~ France defeated Germany in Battle of Verdun.
1923 ~ Birthday of Freeman Dyson, Physicist.
1952 ~ Death of Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Physicist.
1961 ~ An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentenced Adolph Eichmann to die for his part in the Jewish holocaust.
1966 ~ Death of Walt Disney, Animator & Cartoonist.
1994 ~ Netscape Navigator 1.0 first released.
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