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December 6th
1884 ~ The Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, banning slavery, was ratified.
1889 ~ Death of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
1917 ~ A munitions explosion killed more than 1,900 people and destroyed part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1920 ~ Birthday of Dave Brubeck, jazz musician.
1929 ~ Birthday of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor.
1947 ~ Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Truman.
1957 ~ The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit, Vanguard TV3, was renamed 'Flopnik'.
1989 ~ Marc Lépine killed 14 women in Montreal, Quebec.
1992 ~ In Ayodhya, India, Hindus demolished the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque.
2002 ~ Death of Philip Berrigan, civil rights activist.
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43 BC ~ Death of Cicero, Roman politician and author.
1928 ~ Birthday of Noam Chomsky, Linguist.
1941 ~ The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into World War II.
1963 ~ Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1970 ~ Death of Rube Goldberg, best known for his cartoons depicting Rube Goldberg machines.
1971 ~ Birthday of Chasey Lain, Porn Actress.
1972 ~ Launch of Apollo 17, the last manned lunar landing mission.
1975 ~ Indonesia invaded East Timor.
1993 ~ Death of Wolfgang Paul, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1989.
1999 ~ The beginning of the end of Napster. The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against it, alleging copyright infringement.
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December 8th
1864 ~ Death of George Boole, Mathematician.
1925 ~ Birthday of Sammy Davis Jr., Actor & Singer.
1939 ~ Birthday of James Galway, Irish flutist.
1941 ~ The U.S. entered World War II when Congress declared war against Japan.
1953 ~ President Eisenhower gave the "Atoms for Peace" speech.
1978 ~ Death of Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel.
1980 ~ Mark Chapman murdered former Beatle John Lennon.
1991 ~ Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine signed an agreement marking the end of the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993 ~ U.S. participation in The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed into law by President Clinton.
2010 ~ The first operational solar-sail spacecraft, IKAROS, passed the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
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1791 ~ The U.S. Bill of Rights ratified.
1890 ~ Death of Sitting Bull, leader of Lakota tribe.
1916 ~ France defeated Germany in Battle of Verdun.
1916 ~ Birthday of Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, co-recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contribution to the elucidation of the structure of DNA.
1919 ~ Birthday of Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site.
1958 ~ Death of Wolfgang Pauli, Physicist.
1961 ~ An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentenced Adolph Eichmann to death.
1966 ~ Death of Walt Disney, Animator & Cartoonist.
1982 ~ Spain reopened the border with Gibraltar.
1994 ~ Netscape Navigator 1.0 first released.
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1778 ~ Birthday of Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist & physicist.
1830 ~ Death of Simón Bolívar, Latin American politician & Activist.
1843 ~ A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published.
1903 ~ The first controlled, powered heavier-than-air flight occurred when the Wright brothers took to the air, both of them twice at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1961 ~ India seized Goa from Portugal.
1969 ~ The USAF, in closing Project Blue Book, announced that its UFO investigations found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1976 ~ Birthday of Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Jaimee Foxworth, mainstrean & Porn Actress.
1982 ~ ”Tootsie” opened in theaters.
1989 ~ The pilot episode of The Simpsons aired in the U.S.
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1737 ~ Death of Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker.
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1892 ~ The premiere performance of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" in Saint Petersburg, Russia
1912 ~ Official presentation of the discovery of Piltdown Man.
1936 ~ Death of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist.
1957 ~ The first U.S. civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity went online.
1989 ~ The British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock dropped its policy on trade union closed shops.
1996 ~ "Ebonics" was declared a language or dialect by the outgoing school board of Oakland, California, whose vote was overturned by the incoming board. The Clinton administration declared "black English" a form of slang that did not belong in the classroom.
2002 ~ California Governor Grey Davis announced that the state would face a budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier. The budget issue was used to support his 2003 recall from office.
2006 ~ Death of Joseph Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera, creators of The Flintstones, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs, and Yogi Bear.
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Originally Posted by jseal
2006 ~ Death of Joseph Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera, creators of The Smurfs.
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We've had this discussion before.
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