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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today is Wednesday, December 9, the 343rd day of 2009. There are 22 days left in the year. 0536 _ Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten 1878 _ Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1905 _ French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state 1905 _ Richard Strauss' opera ``Salome" premieres in Dresden 1907 _ First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington, Del., post office) 1931 _ Spain becomes a republic 1941 _ China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy 1941 _ Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed 1990 _ Lech Walesa wins presidential election in Poland 1992 _ Prince Charles and Princess Diana separation announced by British P.M. John Major

Dec 8, 2009

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009

Today is Tuesday, December 8, the 342nd day of 2009. There are 23 days left in the year. 1813 _ Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A premieres 1863 _ Abraham Lincoln announces plan for reconstruction of South 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. 1966 _ U.S. and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space 1982 _ Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, holds the Washington Monument hostage ― After 10 hours, police kill him; he has no explosives 1987 _ Occupied Palestinians start ``intifada" (uprising) against Israel 1991 _ Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Independent States 1992 _ Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)

Dec 7, 2009

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009

Today is Monday, December 7, the 341st day of 2009. There are 24 days left in the year. 0185 _ Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52) 1741 _ Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia 1783 _ William Pitt Jr. (24) becomes British premier 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) 1949 _ Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan 1987 _ Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in the U.S. for a summit meeting 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, 2009

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2009

Today is Saturday, December 5, the 339th day of 2009. There are 26 days left in the year. 1766 _ London auctioneers Christie's hold their first sale 1792 _ George Washington re-elected U.S. president, John Adams vice president 1830 _ Hector Berlioz' ``Symphonique Fantastique" premieres in Paris 1893 _ First electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges 1926 _ Sergei Eisenstein's ``Battleship Potemkin" debuts 1929 _ First U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York, N.Y.) 1932 _ German physicist Albert Einstein granted a U.S. visa 1955 _ AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president 1973 _ Paul McCartney releases ``Band on the Run" album 1990 _ Salman Rushdie, author (ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy), appears in public for first time in two years

Dec 4, 2009

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2009

Today is Friday, December 4, the 338th day of 2009. There are 27 days left in the year. 0771 _ Karle, the Great, becomes king of all France 1619 _ America's first Thanksgiving Day (Virginia) 1829 _ Britain abolished ``suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre 1923 _ Cecil B. DeMille's first version of ``Ten Commandments" premieres 1941 _ Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts 1945 _ Senate approves U.S. participation in U.N. 1981 _ President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence (No. 12333) 1985 _ ``Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London 1990 _ Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages 1996 _ NASA's first Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral

Dec 3, 2009

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today is Thursday, December 3, the 337th day of 2009. There are 28 days left in the year. 1586 _ Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia 1621 _ Galileo perfects the telescope 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 City 1948 _ Chinese refugee ship ``Kiangya" explodes in E. China Sea, killing 1,100 1953 _ Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Republican party 1964 _ ``Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" first airs on TV 1967 _ Ex-President Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia 1989 _ George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta

Dec 2, 2009

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2009

Today is Wednesday, December 2, the 336th day of 2009. 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" 1908 _ Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3 1917 _ Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea 1927 _ First Model A Fords sold, for $385 1929 _ First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien 1957 _ First U.S. full-scale atomic power plant in Shippingport, Pa. 1961 _ Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist and will lead Cuba to Communism 1968 _ President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor 1982 _ First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark who lived 112 days

Dec 1, 2009

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009

Today is Tuesday, December 1, the 335th day of 2009. There are 30 days left in the year. 1804 _ Emperor Napoleon marries Josephine of Martinique 1822 _ Franz Liszts (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran 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 1929 _ Game of BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe 1941 _ Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war 1943 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day) 1982 _ Michael Jackson releases ``Thriller" 1991 _ AIDS Awareness Day

Nov 30, 2009

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Today is Monday, November 30, the 334th day of 2009. There are 31 days left in the year. 1782 _ Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence 1803 _ Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France 1924 _ First photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio 1947 _ Day after U.N. decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked 1948 _ Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin 1949 _ Chinese Communists captured Chungking 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, 2009

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Today is Saturday, November 28, the 332nd day of 2009. There are 33 days left in the year. 741 _ St. Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1520 _ Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean 1871 _ Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in S.C. 1929 _ Adm. Richard E Byrd makes first South Pole flight 1942 _ Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, Mass. 1943 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy 1963 _ First million copy record prior to release ``I Want to Hold Your Hand" 1986 _ Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for first time 1987 _ South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die 1988 _ Picasso's ``Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million

Nov 27, 2009

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