12-26-2004, 02:34 PM
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December 26th
1620 ~ Elizabeth Bathory's crimes were uncovered.
1791 ~ Birthday of Charles Babbage, Mathematician and designer of computing machines.
1792 ~ Final trial of Louis XVI of France began in Paris.
1890 ~ Death of Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist.
1893 ~ Birthday of Mao Zedong, Chinese Politician.
1925 ~ Turkey adopted the Gregorian Calendar.
1933 ~ FM radio was patented.
1966 ~ The first Kwanzaa was celebrated.
1982 ~ TIME magazine's “Man of the Year” was for the first time given to a non-human; a computer.
1998 ~ Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patroled the northern and southern "no-fly zones".
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