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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2007

Today is Wednesday, December 26, the 360th day of 2007. There are 5 days left in the year. 268 _ St. Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic pope 1776 _ George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton 1805 _ France and Austria sign Peace of Pressburg 1925 _ Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar 1932 _ Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu, China 1934 _ Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms 1943 _ British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1968 _ Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1 1973 _ Soyuz 13 returns to Earth 1973 _ ``The Exorcist," starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres 1978 _ India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail 1988 _ Anti-African student rebellion in China 1994 _ French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille

Dec 25, 2007

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2007

Today is Tuesday, December 25, the 359th day of 2007. There are 6 days left in the year. 352 _ First definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec. 25 390 _ Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica 1522 _ Turkish troops occupy Rhodos 1830 _ Hector Berlioz's ``Symphony Fantastic" premieres 1832 _ Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St Martin at Cape Receiver 1848 _ New Haven Railroad opens 1888 _ First indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia 1922 _ Lenin dictates his ``Political testament" 1926 _ Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989) 1942 _ Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad 1946 _ Constitution accepted in Taiwan 1959 _ Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market 1990 _ ``Godfather III" premieres

Dec 24, 2007

MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2007

Today is Monday, December 24, the 358th day of 2007. There are 7 days left in the year. 640 _ John IV begins his reign as Catholic pope 1798 _ Russia and England sign the second anti-French coalition 1818 _ ``Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; sung for the first time the next day 1893 _ Henry Ford completes his first useful gas motor 1914 _ German plane drops bombs on Dover, England 1920 _ Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City) 1922 _ BBC sends the first British radio play ``Truth about Father Christmas" 1943 _ FDR appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces 1951 _ The United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the U.N. 1954 _ Laos gains its independence 1967 _ China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor 1970 _ Walt Disney's ``The Aristocats" is released 1980 _ Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds 1986 _ Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab 1990 _ Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target 1991 _ Mikhail Go

Dec 23, 2007

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2007

Today is Saturday, December 22, the 356th day of 2007. There are 9 days left in the year. 401 _ St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic pope 1731 _ Dutch people revolt against meat tax 1790 _ Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks 1910 _ U.S. postal savings stamps first issued 1941 _ Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C., for a wartime conference 1941 _ Japan's invasion leader lands on Luzon, the Philippines 1956 _ Last British/French troops leave Egypt 1968 _ Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower 1971 _ The U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-general 1971 _ The USSR performs underground nuclear test 1978 _ Thailand adopts constitution 1983 _ Egyptian President Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat 1988 _ South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa 1990 _ Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait 1990 _ Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president

Dec 21, 2007

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2007

Today is Friday, December 21, the 355th day of 2007. There are 10 days left in the year. 1620 _ 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1919 _ J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia 1923 _ Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation 1925 _ Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow 1941 _ German submarine U-567 sinks 1946 _ Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086 1949 _ Dutch 1st Chamber accept sovereignty of Indonesia 1957 _ Indonesia proclaims end to state of war 1958 _ Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as first president of the 5th Republic of France 1961 _ JFK and British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda 1971 _ The U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as the fourth secretary-general 1972 _ The Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany 1987 _ Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts (Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko and Vladimir Titov) to space station Mir 1989 _ The U.S. invades Panama and ousts General Noriega 1991 _ The Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12

Dec 20, 2007

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2007

Today is Thursday, December 20, the 354th day of 2007. There are 11 days left in the year. 69 _ General Vespasianus occupies Rome 1780 _ England declares war on the Netherlands 1830 _ England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium 1879 _ Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park 1919 _ U.S. House of Representatives restricts immigration 1935 _ Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii 1941 _ Japanese troops lands on Mindanao 1963 _ The Berlin Wall opens for the first time to West Berliners 1966 _ Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established 1971 _ Pakistan President Yahya Khan resigns 1974 _ Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state 1980 _ The USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin 1990 _ Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns 1999 _ Portugal returns Macau to China

Dec 19, 2007

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2007

Today is Wednesday, December 19, the 353rd day of 2007. There are 12 days left in the year. 401 _ St. Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic pope 1055 _ Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad 1154 _ King Henry II of England crowned 1686 _ Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe) 1788 _ Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam 1842 _ U.S. recognizes independence of Hawaii 1843 _ Charles Dickens publishes ``A Christmas Carol" in England 1884 _ Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1946 _ War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi 1950 _ General Eisenhower named NATO commander 1950 _ Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion 1961 _ Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization 1963 _ Zanzibar becomes independent from U.K. 1984 _ China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor 1984 _ U.K. signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 1986 _ The USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile 1991 _ Boris Yeltsin takes

Dec 18, 2007

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2007

Today is Tuesday, December 18, the 352nd day of 2007. There are 13 days left in the year. 1774 _ Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa 1777 _ The first national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender 1783 _ English king George III fires government of Portland 1892 _ Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet ``Nutcracker Suite" premieres 1917 _ The Soviet regiment declares Finland independent 1941 _ German submarine U-434 sinks 1941 _ Japanese troops land on Hong Kong 1956 _ Japan admitted to the United Nations 1969 _ Britain abolishes death penalty 1980 _ Vietnam adopts constitution 1991 _ General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants 1994 _ The Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election 1996 _ TV industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system

Dec 17, 2007

MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2007

Today is Monday, December 17, the 351st day of 2007. There are 14 days left in the year. 283 _ St. Gaius begins his reign as Catholic pope 1526 _ Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia 1538 _ Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII 1718 _ England declares war on Spain 1777 _ France recognizes independence of English colonies in America 1907 _ Ugyen Wangchuck became the first hereditary king of Bhutan 1914 _ Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate 1920 _ Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands 1949 _ Burma recognizes People's Republic of China 1977 _ France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1981 _ Members of the Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier-General James L. Dozier

Dec 16, 2007

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2007

Today is Saturday, December 15, the 349th day of 2007. There are 16 days left in the year. 687 _ St. Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic pope succeeding Conon 1582 _ Spain/Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar 1680 _ Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal 1877 _ Thomas Edison patents phonograph 1939 _ World premiere of ``Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta 1944 _ U.S. Congress gives Gen. Eisenhower his fifth star 1970 _ South Korean ferry Namyong-ho sinks in the Strait of Korea, 308 killed 1979 _ World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all U.S. hostages

Dec 14, 2007

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