12-21-2005, 06:42 AM
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December 21st
1118 ~ Birthday of Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor & Archbishop of Canterbury.
1804 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Disraeli, Politician & Writer.
1898 ~ Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
1914 ~ First feature-length silent film comedy, “Tillie's Punctured Romance”, was released, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin.
1933 ~ Newfoundland becomes a crown colony.
1940 ~ Death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Writer.
1945 ~ Death of George S. Patton, U.S. General.
1958 ~ Charles de Gaulle became the first leader of the Fifth Republic.
1979 ~ The U.S. Federal government bailed out the Chrysler Corporation.
1988 ~ A terrorist bomb exploded in Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270, including 11 on the ground.
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