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Tue, January 19, 2021 | 23:14
Today in History
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2020
Posted : 2020-12-22 17:00
Updated : 2020-12-22 17:00
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1620-French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII

1672-Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn

1751-France sets plan to tax clergymen

1776-Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"

1852-First Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco

1867-1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightener)

1888-Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear

1893-The opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)

1919-Alice H. Parker patents gas heating furnace

1930-Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York NY

1941-Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma

1942-Allies air attack on Den Helder

1943-General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day

1962-Cuba starts returning US prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion

1964-India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed

1968-North Korea releases Pueblo crew

1970-New York World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)

1970-USSR performs nuclear test

1983-Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter

1990-Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia

1997-Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing

1997-US Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18

1997-Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow











 
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