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1833 ~ Birthday of Samuel Mudd, physician, convicted conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1860 ~ South Carolina became the first state to secede from the US.
1901 ~ Birthday of Robert Van de Graaff, Physicist & Inventor.
1968 ~ Death of John Steinbeck, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962.
1989 ~ American troops invaded Panama to remove dictator Manuel Noriega.
1991 ~ Paul Keating became the 24th Prime Minister of Australia.
1995 ~ IFOR (Implementation Force), a NATO-led multinational force, began peacekeeping in Bosnia. The task of IFOR was transfered to SFOR (Stabilisation Force) on 21-DEC-96, and transfered to EUFOR on 02-DEC-05.
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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December 22nd
1858 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Puccini, Composer.
1864 ~ Savannah, Georgia fell to the Union army of General Sherman.
1880 ~ Death of George Eliot, Writer.
1942 ~ Adolf Hitler signed the order to develop the V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2)rocket as a weapon.
1944 ~ Battle of the Bulge – German troops under the command of General Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz demand the surrender of U.S. troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
1989 ~ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opened, ending the division of East and West Germany.
1975 ~ Birthday of Crissy Moran, former Porn Actress.
2001 ~ The Afghan Northern Alliance, handed over power in Afghanistan to the government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
2001 ~ Richard Reid tried to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.
2001 ~ Cc the cat, the first cloned pet, was born.
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December 27th
1571 ~ Birthday of Johannes Kepler, astronomer.
1822 ~ Birthday of Louis Pasteur, Scientist.
1831 ~ Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
1904 ~ James Barrie's play Peter Pan premiered in London.
1932 ~ Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.
1945 ~ The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were created with an agreement signed by 28 nations.
1945 ~ Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted Indonesia sovereignty.
1985 ~ Naturalist Dian Fossey was found murdered in Rwanda.
2001 ~ The U.S. announced plans to hold Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
2007 ~ Riots erupted in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election.
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December 30th
1853 ~ The U.S. bought some 45,000 sq miles of land from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase.
1879 ~ The Pirates of Penzance was first performed.
1911 ~ Sun Yat-sen was elected the first president of the Republic of China.
1922 ~ The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed by the confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, and Transcaucasian Federation.
1924 ~ Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galaxies.
1937 ~ Birthday of Gordon Banks, the best Goalkeeper ever.
1973 ~ Birthday of Nacho Vidal, Spanish Porn Actor.
1981 ~ Birthday of Haley Paige, Porn Actress.
1993 ~ Israel and the Vatican established diplomatic relations.
2006 ~ Saddam Hussein hanged for crimes committed during his brutal reign.
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January 1st
1752 ~ Birthday of Betsy Ross, American seamstress.
1801 ~ Discovery of 1 Ceres, first known asteroid.
1879 ~ Birthday of E. M. Forster, English novelist.
1895 ~ Birthday of J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director.
1901 ~ Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia (Federation).
1983 ~ The ARPANET officially changed to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
1985 ~ The Internet's Domain Name System created.
1995 ~ The World Trade Organization came into existence.
1997 ~ Kofi Annan was appointed Secretary General of the United Nations.
2002 ~ Euro banknotes and coins became legal tender.
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January 2nd
1727 ~ Birthday of James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War.
1872 ~ Brigham Young was arrested for bigamy (25 wives).
1882 ~ John D. Rockefeller united his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
1904 ~ Death of James Longstreet, Confederate general.
1905 ~ The Russian fleet surrender at Port Arthur, China brought the Russo-Japanese War to a close.
1920 ~ Birthday of Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction author.
1929 ~ Canada and the United States agreed on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
1974 ~ President Nixon signed a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH.
1994 ~ Death of Dixy Lee Ray, governor of Washington State & chaired the Atomic Energy Commission.
1996 ~ U.S. peacekeepers arrive in Bosnia.
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January 3rd
106 BC ~ Birthday of Cicero, Roman Statesman & Philosopher.
1521 ~ Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.
1777 ~ General George Washington defeated General Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
1795 ~ Birthday of Josiah Wedgwood, British potter.
1861 ~ Delaware voted to not secede from the United States.
1892 ~ Birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-born Writer & Philologist.
1956 ~ Birthday of Mel Gibson, Australian Actor & Director.
1979 ~ Death of Conrad Hilton, American hotelier.
1959 ~ Alaska was admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
1993 ~ Presidents George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow. (START).
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