12-20-2004, 06:26 AM
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December 20th
1833 ~ Birthday of Samuel Mudd, physician, possible conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1860 ~ South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States.
1901 ~ Birthday of Robert Van de Graaff, Physicist & Inventor.
1915 ~ Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
1968 ~ Death of John Steinbeck, writer.
1982 ~ Death of Artur Rubinstein, musician.
1995 ~ NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1996 ~ Death of Carl Sagan, Astronomer & Writer.
1999 ~ Vermont's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.
1999 ~ Macau was returned to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
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