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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2008

Today is Wednesday, December 10, the 345th day of 2008. 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 1898 _ Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam 1903 _ Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie 1915 _ 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled 1925 _ George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel 1926 _ Second part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published 1941 _ Japanese troops land on northern Luzon in the Philippines 1964 _ Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. 1983 _ Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's first civilian president

Dec 9, 2008

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008

Today is Tuesday, December 9, the 344th day of 2008. There are 22 days left in the year. 536 _ Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten 1688 _ King James II's wife and son flee England for France 1931 _ Spain becomes a republic 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 1949 _ Dutch Second Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty 1953 _ General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1975 _ Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize 1990 _ Lech Walesa wins presidential election in Poland

Dec 8, 2008

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008

Today is Monday, December 8, the 343rd day of 2008. There are 23 days left in the year. 1881 _ Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850 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 City 1966 _ U.S. and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space 1974 _ Greek monarchy rejected by referendum 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

Dec 7, 2008

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2008

Today is Saturday, December 6, the 341st day of 2008. There are 25 days left in the year. 1768 _ First edition of ``Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) 1841 _ Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres 1862 _ President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians 1865 _ 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery 1877 _ Washington Post publishes first edition 1917 _ Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) 1933 _ Ban on James Joyce' ``Ulysses" in U.S. lifted 1956 _ Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa 1957 _ Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions 1973 _ Gerald Ford sworn-in as first un-elected vice president, succeeds Spiro Agnew

Dec 5, 2008

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008

Today is Friday, December 5, the 340th day of 2008. There are 26 days left in the year. 1456 _ Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die 1492 _ Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola, Haiti) 1792 _ George Washington reelected U.S. President, John Adams Vice-President 1830 _ Hector Berlioz' ``Symphonique fantastique" premieres in Paris 1831 _ Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as member of House of Representatives 1932 _ German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa 1941 _ Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army 1973 _ Paul McCartney releases ``Band on the Run" album 1978 _ European Union establishes EMS, European Monetary System 1990 _ Salman Rushdie, author (ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy), appears in public for first time in two years

Dec 4, 2008

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008

Today is Thursday, December 4, the 339th day of 2008. There are 27 days left in the year. 0771 _ Karel, the Great, becomes king of all France 1619 _ America's first Thanksgiving Day (Virginia) 1833 _ American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia 1905 _ British government of Balfour resigns 1918 _ Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed 1923 _ Cecil B. DeMille's first version of ``Ten Commandments" premieres 1976 _ Liz Taylor's seventh marriage (John Warner) 1978 _ Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus 1980 _ Two months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up 1982 _ China adopts its constitution

Dec 3, 2008

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008

Today is Wednesday, December 3, the 338th day of 2008. There are 28 days left in the year. 1557 _ First Covenant of Scottish protestants form 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 NY 1953 _ Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Republican party 1956 _ England and France pull troops out of Egypt 1958 _ Indonesian parliament accepts nationalization of Dutch businesses 1971 _ President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term 1984 _ 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India

Dec 2, 2008

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008

Today is Tuesday, December 2, the 337th day of 2008. 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" 1868 _ First British government of Disraeli resigns 1885 _ The opera ``Regina di Saba" is produced (Vienna) 1917 _ Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Oseam Monastery Korea 1958 _ Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg 1961 _ Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist and will lead Cuba to Communism 1968 _ President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor 1988 _ U.N. votes 151-2 (Israel & U.S.) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Britain abstains 1994 _ Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring

Dec 1, 2008

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008

Today is Monday, December 1, the 336th day of 2008. There are 30 days left in the year. 1640 _ Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule 1742 _ Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia 1804 _ Emperor Napoleon marries Josephine of Martinique 1843 _ First chartered mutual life insurance company opens 1887 _ Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao 1896 _ First certified public accountants receive certificates (New York) 1941 _ Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war 1943 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day) 1959 _ Twelve nations sign a treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica 1991 _ AIDS awareness day

Nov 30, 2008

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Today is Saturday, November 29, the 334th day of 2008. There are 32 days left in the year. 1825 _ First Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in U.S. (NYC) 1877 _ Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph 1933 _ First state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania) 1944 _ John Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery 1947 _ U.N. Gen 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 _ LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of JFK 1971 _ First pro golf championship at Walt Disney World 1987 _ Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost

Nov 28, 2008

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