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    Using this site you can find out all the neato things that have happened on the day you were born, feel free to post and discuss. I will bold all the ones I find most interesting. Please only copy the top portion or any ones you find special to keep size limited.

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    November 19th

    1493 Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

    1863 American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

    1917 Indian prime minister Indire Gandhi was born

    1942 American fashion designer Calvin Klein was born

    1946 Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

    1969 Apollo 12's Conrad and Bean become 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon

    1985 Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

    1998 Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
     
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    Nothing particularly interesting, sadly. Babe Ruth fined $200 for throwing dirt on an umpire, lol.
     
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    Jeez, I found a lot of cool stuff on my birthday.
     
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    4th of July


    1776
    American Independence Day . The United States Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress declaring itself free of British rule. Signed in Philadelphia.

    1776 The 13 colonies in America met in Philadelphia to sign their Declaration of Independence, declaring themselves free of British rule and taxation.

    1826
    John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third presidents of the United States, respectively, died on this day, the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

    1831 James Monroe 5th president, dies

    1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.

    1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris

    1914 The first US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)

    1946 After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule, the Philippines is granted full independence by the United States.

    All pretty lame things.... these are the most interesting of the lot. American Independence Day is the biggest, but of course I already knew about that one.
     
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    I didn't find them lame at all, at least you get to celebrate your birthday with fireworks :p
     
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    Well that's the disappointment of living in New Zealand :confused:
    We don't celebrate American Independence Day here... kinda sucks.
     
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    this is what happened on the exact date I was born:

    May 18, 1992
    1992 The Archivist of the United States issues a proclamation to officially announce that the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been ratified, despite more than 200 years for completion of the ratification process by the state legislatures.
     
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    December 25

    Check 1990, year i was born.

    0001 Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus

    0274 Roman Emperor Aurelian dedicates a temple to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the winter solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun.

    0336 The first1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec 25 occurs in Rome

    0597 England adopts Julian calendar

    0795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

    0800 Coronation of Charlemagne (742-814) as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. While attending Mass in Rome, he was unexpectedly crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III. Unified most of Europe under his rule.

    1066 Harold II is killed in the Battle of Hastings, and William the Conqueror is crowned as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.

    1100 Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity

    1223 St Francis of Assisi assembles first Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)

    1261 John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.

    1599 The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.

    1621 Gov William Bradford forbids game playing on this day

    1635 Samuel de Champlain c1567-1635 dies at Quebec on Christmas Day, age 68, after stroke paralyzed him in October;

    1643 Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary.

    1650 Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, hanged as a Royalist rebel.

    1745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians

    1758 Halley's comet first sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return

    1760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Thought"

    1775 Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate

    1776 George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.




    1776 Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians

    1818 "Silent Night," by Franz Joseph Gruber and Joseph Mohr sung for first time

    1818 First US performance of Handel's Messiah, Boston

    1837 Battle of Lake Okeechobee: United States forces defeat Seminole Native Americans.

    1837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians

    1843 First theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)

    1848 New Haven Railroad opens

    1854 Opening of the Bytown and Prescott Railway between Prescott and Bytown (now Ottawa), 54 miles. First rail service to what is now Canada's Capital. Bytown was renamed Ottawa in 1855 and the railway became the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company, now part of Canadian Pacific.

    1855 Soldiers of the Royal Canadian Rifles at the Tête du Pont barracks clear ice from Lake Ontario and use field hockey sticks and lacrosse balls to play what is reputed to be the first game of ice hockey

    1862 40,000 watch the Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC

    1868 Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)

    1868 U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.

    1881 The ship Lord Bute, left Newcastle on Tyne and was not heard of again. It is speculated that she was lost with all hands the following day.

    1914 Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the German troops along the Eastern and Western fronts cease firing their guns and artillery, and start singing Christmas carols and playing brass musical instruments; at first light, many German soldiers emerge from their trenches and cross No Man's Land, calling out Merry Christmas in English and French; at first the Allied soldiers suspect a trick, but soon they are shaking hands with the Boche; swapping cigarettes and plum pudding, and even playing soccer; the Christmas Truce lasts a few days, then it is back to the bloody conflict of World War I; there are no more Christmas Truces.

    1914 SS Therese Heymann. This Ropner ship left the Tyne and was posted missing thereafter. No information about her fate is known but she may have been mined off Filey, Yorkshire as was the fate of many other vessels.

    1914 World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.

    1917 Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.

    1926 Emperor Taish of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shwa.

    1926 Hirohito became emperor of Japan (1926-1989)

    1930 First US bobsled run open to the public (Lake Placid NY)







    1931 New York's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio

    1932 A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people.

    1932 December 25: First Empire Christmas Broadcast, with address by King George V. included contributions from Canada, and was distributed to all Canadian stations

    1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer

    1941 Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet

    1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong

    1941 Japan announces the surrender of the British-Canadian garrison by radio broadcast; 290 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada (a Québec unit) and the Winnipeg Grenadiers are dead, 493 wounded; Canadian survivors spend rest of war in Japanese POW camps

    1944 Canadian Army captures Adriatic coast city of Ravenna, Italy

    1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan

    1947 The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.

    1950 The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.

    1953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)

    1955 Personal posting - Glorianne Wheatley was born(4.07am)Singapore

    1959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swastikas

    1963 Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.

    1963 Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released

    1965 The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz

    1967 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged

    1968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon

    1971 In the longest game in NFL history (82m40s of game time), the Miami Dolphins defeat the Kansas City Chiefs at Kansas City Municipal Stadium 27-24.




    1971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul

    1973 The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.

    1973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)

    1974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia

    1974 Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.

    1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born (Soleado)

    1977 Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.

    1979 The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation.

    1983 Live telecast of Christmas Parade

    1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8øC, coldest temp ever recorded

    1989 Nicolae Ceauescu, former communist dictator of Romania, and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges.

    1990 "Godfather III" premiers

    1990 The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.

    1991 The hammer & sickle red flag that symbolized 75 years of Soviet communism was lowered for the last time and replaced by 15 flags of 15 newly-independent republics. On January 1, 1992, the Soviet Union and the Soviet Communist party officially ceased to exist.

    1993 SS South of Ireland, a passenger steamer, built for the Great Western Railway, and completed in 1867, she was lost at Warbarrow near Lulworth on December 25th, inward bound to Weymouth.

    2000 A Christmas day fire killed 309 people at a dance hall in the central Chinese city of Luoyang

    2000 A bank machine in a supermarket in the town of Antibes France paid double the withdrawal amount while only recording the correct amount (Merry Christmas)

    2000 Personal posting - Toheeda Sheik was born on this day - South Africa

    2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.

    2004 Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.

    2007 The Queen's Annual Christmas Address to the nation and the Commonwealth is made available on the internet-site YouTube.

    2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab a Nigerian Muslim citizen attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with 289 people on board. - Nigeria


    I was born same day as the internet, lol.
     
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    Oh, I guess that would make sense then. Still pretty cool imo.
     
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    I was born on august 8 1992 and the day i was born the u.s dream team won there gold medal (basketball).. Even though im not american i feel special lol
     
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    All mine are people getting murdered. What a life eh?

    1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die

    1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government

    1941 First anti semitic measures in Serbia

    1941 German capture Kreta

    1941 The Canadian passenger ship SS Nerissa torpedoed off Ireland 73 Cdn. Army personnel lost

    1941 World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the athenian Acropolis, tear down the nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.

    1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WWII

    1942 Reichsführer Himmler arrives in Prague

    1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

    1942 World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.

    1943 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers

    1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians

    1944 Transport NR75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany

    1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die

    1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

    1949 East Germans constitution approved
     
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    Brutal, I hope you don't plan on pursuing anything involving weapons.
     
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    May 7

    1429 English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc
    1429 Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orlans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning wounded to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
    1579 Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
    1765 Admiral Nelson's sailboat HMS Victory runs aground (LOL big whoop)
    1771 Samuel Hearne arrives at the mouth of the Coppermine River and views the Arctic Coast.
    1800 Indiana Territory organized
    1832 Greece becomes independent republic
    1840 Birth - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Votkinsk Russia, composer (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, 1812 Overture) (NICE! i have the same birthday as Tchaikovsky!)
    1915 World War I: a German submarine U-20 sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turned many formerly pro-Germans in the United States of America against the German Empire.
    1920 Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
    1945 Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII
    # 1945 Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
     
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    2009 Personal posting - Kimora Graham was born my bundle of joy xx - United Kingdom
     
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    # 0515 BC - Construction is completed on the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
    # 0538 Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
    # 0641 A.D. Chinese Princess Wen Cheng goes to Tibet to marry the Tibetan ruler and the marriage becomes the basis for China's claim to sovereignty over the region
    # 1572 Luos Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal
    # 1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
    # 1597 England routes troops to Amiens
    # 1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
    # 1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
    # 1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
    # 1642 Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand
    # 1664 First naturalization act in American colonies
    # 1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
    # 1664 New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
    # 1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
    # 1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
    # 1755 First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
    # 1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
    # 1814 British troops under Wellington capture Bordeaux in France
    # 1848 Second republic established in France
    # 1849 The first gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
     
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    Alot of military related topics, interesting.
     
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    # 1877 Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole - A small band of Nez Perc Indians clash with the United States Army.
    # 1902 Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
    # 1907 The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
    # 1918 Cpl. Alexander P. Brereton (8th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
    # 1918 Cpl. Frederick G. Coppins (8th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
    # 1918 Cpl. Harry G. B. Miner (58th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
    # 1918 Cpl. Joseph Kaeble (22nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
    # 1918 Lt. James E. Tait (78th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
    # 1918 Lt. Jean Brillant (22nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
    # 1918 Sgt. Raphael Louis Zengel (5th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France
    # 1930 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
    # 1936 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal of Berlin Olympics
    # 1936 Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
    # 1942 HMAS CANBERRA (RAN) sunk in the South West Pacific, SE of Savo Island off northern Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands - by torpedoes and 8in gunfire of Japanese cruiser force.
    # 1942 HMAS Canberra sunk in battle of Savo Island
    # 1942 Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
    # 1944 The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
    # 1945 A second atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki; Soviets declare war on Japan, attacking Manchuria.
    # 1945 Lt. Robert H. Gray (Royal Cdn. Naval Volunteer Reserve) wins the Victoria Cross at Onagawa BAy Honshu, Japan
    # 1945 World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 70,000 people are killed instantly.
     
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    December 24.

    563 The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is inaugurated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
    0640 John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
    1294 Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had abdicated.
    1515 Thomas Wolsey is named Lord Chancellor.
    1584 Basque whaler Joanes de Echaniz dictates his last will and testament at Carol's Cove, near Red Bay Labrador, it is the oldest surviving will in Canadian history.
    1777 Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.
    1781 Friedrich, Baron von Riedesel 1738-1800 erects Canada's first Christmas tree for the garrison in Fort Sorel, Quebec
    1814 The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
    1814 Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed
    1818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; first sung next day
    1818 "Silent Night" is composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr.
    1824 The Chi Phi Society (later Chi Phi Fraternity) is founded by Robert Baird at Princeton University.
    1832 First US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah GA
    1851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Washington destroys 35,000 volumes
    1851 Library of Congress burns.
    1865 Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
    1865 Several U.S. Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan.
    1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
    1889 Bicycle with a back-pedal brake patented
    1889 Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake


    1905 Howard Hughes born
    1906 Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
    1906 Reginald A Fessenden became first to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
    1910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
    1914 World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
    1919 John D. Rockefeller, the world's richest man, gave away one-hundred million dollars and I missed it
    1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York NY)
    1924 Albania becomes a republic
    1933 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France) 1936 first radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
    1939 World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
    1941 World War II: Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army.
    1941 World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
    1942 First powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemonde, Germany
    1942 The department of National Defence says there are now 681,615 volunteers and conscripts in the Canadian forces.
    1942 World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral Franois Darlan in Algiers.
    1943 FDR appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
    1943 World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.
    1946 4th French republic established
    1946 First Live Church Service Telecast
    1946 France's Fourth Republic is founded.



    1948 Canada formally recognizes the state of Israel.
    1948 First US house completely sunheated is occupied, Dover, Mass
    1951 First televised opera (Amahl and the Night Visitor)
    1951 Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
    1951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN
    1953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
    1953 NBC's Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program.
    1953 Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge collapse at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River and killing 153 people.
    1953 Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
    1954 Laos gains its independence
    1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
    1966 A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
    1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
    1966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
    1967 Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
    1968 Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
    1968 The crew of the USS Pueblo is released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying.
    1970 9 Jews are convicted in Lenningrad of hijacking a plane
    1970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
    1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later


    1973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
    1974 Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
    1979 The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country's Marxist government.
    1979 The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
    1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
    1983 Personal posting - December 24 1983 Marc Rasschaerdt BORN!
    1985 Personal posting - December 24 1985 Regina Noel is born to a large loving family in Chicago!
    1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
    1987 Japanese legendary rock band BOWY declares their breakup at the Shibuya Kokaido.
    1989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican embassy
    1989 Personal posting - Edith Wu was born on this day. - Canada
    1990 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's main target
    1991 Mary Kinnear dies at age 93; appointed to the Senate 1967; one of Canada's first female senators.
    1991 Personal posting - Alex Throne was born. The world was changed forever. muahahahaha - USA
    1995 Personal posting - Amanda A. Blum was welcome on to the earth _______is a Christmas Eve Baby Wat a Gift
    1997 The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
    1997 Personal posting - 1997: Chandler Fasoletti is born at 4:37 p.m. - USA
    1997 The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
    2000 Personal posting - My daughter Gatha was born in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    2000 The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery.
    2001 Personal posting - Tolly Spencer-Worthy born in Newport South Wales. 7lbs 6ozs YIPPEE!
    2002 The New Delhi Metro opens.
    2003 The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartn Station.
    2008 Personal posting - William Stoner and Nickole Almodovar get engaged
    2008 Personal posting - Spencer Freeman was born @ 9:44am!
     
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