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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2010

Today is Saturday, December 4, the 338th day of 2010. There are 28 days left in the year. 771 ― Karl the Great becomes king of all France 1621 ― America's first Thanksgiving Day (Virginia) 1665 ― Jean Racine's ``Alexandre le Grand" premieres in Paris 1791 ― Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, first published 1930 ― Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control 1931 ― ``Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair 1945 ― Senate approves U.S. participation in U.N. 1976 ― Liz Taylor's seventh marriage (John Warner) 1981 ― President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence (No. 12,333) 1982 ― China adopts its constitution 1996 ― NASA's first Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral

Dec 3, 2010

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010

Today is Friday, December 3, the 337th day of 2010. There are 28 days left in the year. 1621 ― Galileo perfects the telescope 1910 ― Neon lights, first publically seen (Paris Auto Show) 1922 ― First successful Technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York, N.Y. 1939 ― Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Symphony, premieres 1946 ― U.S. government asks U.N. to order dictator Franco out of Spain 1947 ― Tennessee Williams play ``A Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in New York, N.Y. 1953 ― Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Republican party 1965 ― Beatles begin final U.K. concert tour in Glasgow 1984 ― 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India 1984 ― Oldest groom; Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin

Dec 2, 2010

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2010

Today is Thursday, December 2, the 336th day of 2010. There are 29 days left in the year. 1804 ― Napoleon Bonaparte crowned first emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII 1823 ― President James Monroe declares his ``Monroe Doctrine" 1883 ― Johannes Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres 1908 ― Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's last emperor at age 3 1917 ― Han Yong-un, found Zen awakening at Oseam Monastery, Korea 1929 ― First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien 1961 ― Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist and will lead Cuba to Communism 1968 ― President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor 1971 ― Soviet Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars 1982 ― First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart

Dec 1, 2010

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2010

Today is Wednesday, December 1, the 335th day of 2010. There are 30 days left in the year. 1804 ― Emperor Napoleon marries Josephine of Martinique 1835 ― Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales 1887 ― Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao 1918 ― Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade 1941 ― Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war 1959 ― The first color photograph of Earth received from outer space 1973 ― Jack Nicklaus becomes first golfer to earn $2 million in a year 1982 ― Michael Jackson releases ``Thriller" 1990 ― British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) 1991 ― AIDS awareness day

Nov 30, 2010

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Today is Tuesday, November 30, the 334th day of 2010. There are 31 days left in the year. 1782 ― Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence 1924 ― First photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio 1939 ― USSR invades Finland over a border dispute 1948 ― Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin 1949 ― Chinese Communists captured Chungking 1954 ― First meteorite ( 8 lb ) known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala.) 1958 ― First guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me. 1962 ― U Thant of Burma elected third secretary-general of U.N. unanimously 1988 ― Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; first time in 38 years 1988 ― U.N. General Assembly (151-2) censures U.S. for refusing PLO's Arafat visa

Nov 29, 2010

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Today is Monday, November 29, the 333rd day of 2010. There are 32 days left in the year. 1812 ― Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia 1877 ― Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph 1944 ― John Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery 1947 ― U.N. General Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews 1951 ― first underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nev. 1952 ― President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war 1963 ― Beatles release ``I Want to Hold Your Hand" 1963 ― LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of JFK 1965 ― Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups 1987 ― Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost

Nov 28, 2010

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Today is Saturday, November 27, the 331st day of 2010. There are 34 days left in the year. 1095 _ Pope Urban II preaches first Crusade 1870 _ NY Times dubs baseball ``The National Game" 1885 _ Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made 1895 _ Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize 1941 _ USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat 1958 _ USSR abrogates allied war-time agreements on control of Germany 1970 _ Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest 1971 _ Soviet Mars 2 becomes first spacecraft to crash land on Mars 1990 _ Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher 1991 _ Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ

Nov 26, 2010

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Today is Friday, November 26, the 330th day of 2010. There are 35 days left in the year. 1789 ― First national thanksgiving 1865 ― Alice in Wonderland published 1885 ― First meteor photograph 1924 ― Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed 1949 ― India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic 1950 ― China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River 1962 ― First recording session under the name ``Beatles" 1969 ― Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall) 1990 ― Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion 1990 ― Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait

Nov 25, 2010

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Today is Thursday, November 25, the 329th day of 2010. There are 36 days left in the year. 1867 ― Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1884 ― John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk 1930 ― 690 earthquake shocks recorded in one day (Ito, Japan) 1960 ― First atomic reactor for research and development, Richland, Wash. 1963 ― JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, 1973 ― Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos 1983 ― World's greatest robbery; $5,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England 1986 ― Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal 1988 ― Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed 1990 ― Lech Walesa wins in Poland's first popular election

Nov 24, 2010

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Today is Wednesday, November 24, the 328th day of 2010. There are 37 days left in the year. 166 B.C. ― Origin of Era of Maccabees 1639 ― First observation of transit of Venus occurred (only two, record event) 1642 ― Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1759 ― Destructive eruption of Vesuvius 1859 ― Charles Darwin publishes ``On the Origin of Species" 1874 ― Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire 1949 ― Britain nationalizes its steel and iron industry 1952 ― Agatha Christie's ``The Mousetrap" opens in London 1963 ― First live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald 1966 ― 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attack in killer NYC smog

Nov 23, 2010

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