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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2010

Today is Thursday, December 16, the 350th day of 2010. There are 15 days left in the year. 1431 ― King Henry VI of England crowned king of France 1631 ― Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, erupts, destroys six villages and kills 4,000 1689 ― English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution 1773 ― Big tea party in Boston harbor-Indians welcome (Boston Tea Party) 1809 ― Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by the French Senate 1913 ― Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week 1915 ― Albert Einstein publishes his ``General Theory of Relativity" 1950 ― Truman proclaims state of emergency against ``Communist imperialism" 1966 ― Jimi Hendrix releases its first single, ``Hey Joe," in the U.K. 1987 ― Roh Tae-woo wins presidential election in South Korea

Dec 15, 2010

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2010

Today is Wednesday, December 15, the 349th day of 2010. There are 16 days left in the year. 1488 ― Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope 1877 ― Thomas Edison patents phonograph 1893 ― Dvorak’s ``From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC 1949 ― Albert Camus' ``Les Justes" premieres in Paris 1952 ― Christine Jorgenson is first person to undergo a sex-change operation 1959 ― Everly Brothers record ``Let It Be Me" 1961 ― Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel 1970 ― South Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed 1988 ― Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks 1993 ― GATT Uruguay Round completed

Dec 14, 2010

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2010

Today is Tuesday, December 14, the 348th day of 2010. There are 17 days left in the year. 1656 ― Artificial pearls first manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales 1825 ― Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins 1911 ― South Pole first reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen 1927 ― Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1946 ― U.N. General Assembly votes to establish headquarters in New York City 1960 ― Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms 1967 ― DNA created in a test tube 1972 ― Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor 1977 ― Egypt and Israel representatives gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference 1988 ― U.S. agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Organization (first time in 13 years)

Dec 13, 2010

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today is Monday, December 13, the 347th day of 2010. There are 18 days left in the year. 1843 ― ``A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold 1895 ― First complete execution of Gustav Mahler’s 2nd Symphony 1903 ― Wright Brothers make first flight at Kittyhawk 1913 ― Mona Lisa stolen in August 1911 returned to Louvre 1916 ― Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol 1920 ― League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague 1944 ― Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138 1950 ― James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial 1990 ― President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid 1991 ― Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconciliation

Dec 12, 2010

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2010

Today is Saturday, December 11, the 345th day of 2010. There are 20 days left in the year. 1620 _ 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1901 _ Marconi sends first transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Newfoundland 1931 _ Japan leaves the Golden Standard 1937 _ Italy withdraws from League of Nations 1941 _ Germany and Italy declare war on U.S. 1946 _ U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) 1946 _ Spain suspended from U.N. 1961 _ Elvis Presley's ``Blue Hawaii" album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 20 weeks 1961 _ JFK provides U.S. military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam 1981 _ Muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick

Dec 10, 2010

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2010

Today is Friday, December 10, the 344th day of 2010. There are 21 days left in the year. 1520 ― Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant 1582 ― France begins use of Gregorian calendar 1799 ― Metric system established in France 1869 ― Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (first in U.S.) 1898 ― Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam 1901 ― First Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy) 1903 ― Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie 1954 ― Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize 1964 ― Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1974 ― European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament

Dec 9, 2010

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today is Thursday, December 9, the 343rd day of 2010. There are 22 days left in the year. 536 ― Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten 1878 ― Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1905 ― Richard Strauss' opera ``Salome" premieres in Dresden 1941 ― China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy 1941 ― Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed 1948 ― U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide 1953 ― General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1968 ― Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford 1987 ― Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank 1990 ― Lech Walesa wins presidential election in Poland

Dec 8, 2010

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010

Today is Wednesday, December 8, the 342nd day of 2010. There are 23 days left in the year. 1846 ― Hector Berlioz's ``La Damnation de Faust" premieres 1914 ― British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island 1923 ― German-U.S. friendship treaty signed 1941 ― U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan, U.S. enters WWII 1949 ― Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa 1962 ― 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York, N.Y. 1974 ― Greek monarchy rejected by referendum 1987 ― Occupied Palestinians start ``intifada" (uprising) against Israel 1987 ― President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles 1991 ― Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Independent States

Dec 7, 2010

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010

Today is Tuesday, December 7, the 341st day of 2010. There are 24 days left in the world. 43 B.C. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head and right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers 1842 ― New York Philharmonic's first concert 1877 ― Thomas A. Edison demonstrates the gramophone 1941 ― Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) 1945 ― Microwave oven patented 1949 ― Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan 1981 ― Spain becomes a member of the NATO 1988 _ Gorbachev announces 10 percent unilateral Soviet troop reductions at U.N. 1988 ― Yasser Arafat recognizes existence of Israel 1988 ― Earthquake in Armenia; 6.9 on the Richter scale (100,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)

Dec 6, 2010

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today is Monday, December 6, the 340th day of 2010. There are 25 days left in the year. 1240 _ Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev 1492 _ Haiti discovered by Columbus 1768 _ First edition of ```Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) 1877 _ First sound recording made (Thomas Edison) 1921 _ Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland 1933 _ Ban on James Joyce' ``Ulysses" in U.S., lifted 1941 _ Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore 1956 _ Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa 1985 _ U.K. joins U.S. ``Star Wars” project 1995 _ Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special

Dec 5, 2010

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