12-21-2004, 06:30 AM
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December 21st
1118 ~ Birthday of Thomas Becket, lord chancellor and archbishop of Canterbury.
1375 ~ Death of Giovanni Boccaccio, writer.
1804 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Disraeli, Politician & Writer.
1872 ~ HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography.
1898 ~ Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
1914 ~ First feature-length silent film comedy, “Tillie's Punctured Romance”, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, was released.
1940 ~ Death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Writer.
1945 ~ Death of George S. Patton, U.S. General.
1988 ~ A terrorist bomb exploded in Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270, including 11 on the ground.
1999 ~ The Spanish Civil Guard intercepted a Madrid-bound van driven by ETA and loaded with 950 kg of explosives. The next day, another van loaded with 750 kg was found not far from there. Shortly after 9/11, ETA confirmed their plan had been to blow down Torre Picasso.
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