12-09-2005, 06:41 AM
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December 9th
1608 ~ Birthday of John Milton, Poet & Writer.
1793 ~ New York City's first daily newspaper, the “American Minerva”, is established by Noah Webster.
1851 ~ First YMCA in North America established in Montreal.
1868 ~ Birthday of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1918.
1937 ~ Battle of Nanjing began. The Rape of Nanjing followed.
1950 ~ Harry Gold sentenced to thirty years in jail for stealing United States nuclear weapon secrets for the Soviet Union.
1961 ~ Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
1987 ~ First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
1990 ~ Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.
1996 ~ Death of Mary Leakey, Archeologist & Anthropologist.
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