12-19-2005, 06:42 AM
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December 19th
1733 ~ Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanack.
1848 ~ Death of Emily Brontë, Author.
1888 ~ Birthday of Fritz Reiner, Conductor.
1906 ~ Birthday of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician.
1962 ~ Nyasaland seceded from Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
1974 ~ The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, went on sale.
1979 ~ ”Kramer vs. Kramer”, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, opened in theaters.
1984 ~ The UK and People's Republic of China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which returned Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
1988 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives passed articles of impeachment against President Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.
2003 ~ Libya announced that it would begin to destroy its weapons of mass destruction.
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