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December 17th
1778 ~ Birthday of Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist & physicist.
1830 ~ Death of Simón Bolívar, Latin American politician & Activist.
1843 ~ A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published.
1903 ~ The first controlled, powered heavier-than-air flight occurred when the Wright brothers took to the air, both of them twice at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1961 ~ India seized Goa from Portugal.
1969 ~ The USAF, in closing Project Blue Book, announced that its UFO investigations found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1973 ~ The American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
1976 ~ Birthday of Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Jaimee Foxworth, mainstrean & Porn Actress.
1982 ~ ”Tootsie” opened in theaters.
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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.
1989 ~ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opened, ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 ~ Lech Wałęsa sworn in as President of Poland.
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 25th
800 ~ Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
1066 ~ Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
1223 ~ Saint Francis of Assisi assembled the first Nativity scene.
1821 ~ Birthday of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.
1868 ~ President Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
1918 ~ Birthday of Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1978.
1938 ~ Birthday of Karel Čapek, Czech author, inventor of the word robot.
1977 ~ Deathof Charlie Chaplin, Entertainer.
1989 ~ Death of Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed).
1991 ~ Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on TV to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day).
Feastdays & Holidays
The Nativity of Jesus.
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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 was hanged for crimes committed during his brutal reign.
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