12-22-2004, 06:38 AM
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Location: Maryland
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December 22nd
1858 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Puccini, Composer.
1880 ~ Death of George Eliot, Writer
1898 ~ The Dreyfus affair began in France when Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason.
1939 ~ Death of Ma Rainey, blues singer.
1944 ~ German forces demanded the surrender of Allied troops at Bastogne, Belgium.
1989 ~ Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist dictatorship.
1989 ~ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opened after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 ~ Lech Wałęsa sworn in as President of Poland.
2001 ~ Birthday of Cc the cat, first cloned pet.
2001 ~ Richard Reid tried to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.
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