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December 18th
1737 ~ Death of Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker.
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
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.
2010 ~ Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, which brought about the Arab Spring!
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December 20th
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!"
1949 ~ Birthday of Maurice & Robin Gibb, English musicianS (The Bee Gees) .
1989 ~ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opened, ending the division of East and West Germany.
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 23rd
1783 ~ George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
1790 ~ Birthday of Jean François Champollion, Egyptologist. He deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
1823 ~ “A Visit From St. Nicholas”, by Clement Clarke Moore, was first published.
1834 ~ Death of Thomas Malthus, Demographer and Economist.
1947 ~ The transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1953 ~ Death of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader.
1956 ~ British and French forces withdrawn from Suez, Egypt.
1972 ~ Death of Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer.
1986 ~ Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling.
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Fans of Seinfeld - Festivus (for the restofus) held.
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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.
1871 ~ The world's first cat show was held at the Crystal Palace in London.
1904 ~ James Barrie's play Peter Pan premiered in London.
1932 ~ Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.
1945 ~ The World Bank was 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.
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December 28th
1065 ~ Westminster Abbey consecrated.
1836 ~ Spain recognized Mexico’s independence.
1869 ~ William F. Semple patented chewing gum.
1895 ~ The Lumiere Brothers gave birth to Cinema at the Grand Cafe in Paris.
1937 ~ Death of Maurice Ravel, French composer.
1951 ~ The Peak District became the UK’s first National Park.
1969 ~ Birthday of Linus Torvalds, Benevolent Dictator for Life of Linux.
1970 ~ Birthday of Francesca Le, Porn Actress.
1973 ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn published Gulag Archipelago.
1989 ~ Death of Hermann Oberth, German physicist.
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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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