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  1. 1777France recognized American independence. 1903Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C. 1944The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing "evacuees" to return home. 1969The U.S. Air Force ended its "Project Blue Book" and concluded that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial activity behind UFO sightings. 1992North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
  2. Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1773The Boston Tea Party took place. 1916Grigori Rasputin assassinated by a group of noble Russian conspirators. 1920One of the deadliest earthquakes in history hit the Gansu province in China. The 8.6 quake killed 200,000 people. 1944The Battle of the Bulge during World War II began in Belgium. 1990Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti in the country's first democratic elections. 2000Colin Powell was selected to become the first African-American secretary of state.
  3. 1799George Washington died at age 67. 1819Alabama became the 22nd state in the United States. 1911Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, beating an expedition led by Robert F. Scott. 1939The Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations. 1967DNA synthesized for the first time. 1981Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights. 1985Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. 1989Nobel Peace laureate Andrei D. Sakharov died in Moscow at age 68. 2012Adam Lanza, age 20, forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 26 people. The victims included 20 children between the ages of six and seven.
  4. 1642New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman. 1918President Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office. 1978The U.S. Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin honoring a woman. 1981The Polish government imposed martial law in an attempt to crush the Solidarity movement. 1989South African President F. W. de Klerk met with Nelson Mandela for the first time. 1996Kofi Annan of Ghana chosen to become UN secretary-general. 2000George W. Bush accepted presidency 36 days after election; Al Gore, Jr., conceded. 2003American forces captured Saddam Hussein who was hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit.
  5. 1787Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1870Joseph Rainey took his seat as the first African American in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1913The Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after having been stolen two years earlier (August 1911) from the Louvre. 1963Kenya gained its independence from Britain. 1998The House Judiciary Committee approved a fourth and final article of impeachment against President Clinton. 2000The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the presidential election recount in Florida. 2001Yasir Arafat closed the offices of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
  6. 1816Indiana became the 19th state. 1844Nitrous oxide was used for the first time in dentistry. 1936King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of Britain for the woman he loved, Mrs. Wallis Simpson. 1941Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. 1946The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established. 1994Russian troups invaded Chechnya in an unsuccessful attempt to restore Moscow's power in the region. 1997Housing secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted for conspiracy, obstructing justice, and false statements to the FBI.
  7. No kiddie without a Christmas https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157841294125510&substory_index=0&id=249015940509
  8. 1817Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States. 1869The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office. 1901The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. 1948The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 1950Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. 1964Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize. 1999Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information. 2004A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.
  9. 1941China declared war against Japan, Germany, and Italy. 1958The anti-Communist John Birch Society was formed. 1965"A Charlie Brown Christmas" premiered. 1990Lech Walesa was elected president of Poland. 1993U.S. astronauts completed repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope. 1996Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey died in Kenya at age 83.
  10. 1854Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. 1886The American Federation of Labor was founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio. 1941Congress declared war on Japan and the U.S. entered World War II. 1949Communist attacks forced the Chinese Nationalist government to flee to the island of Formosa (Taiwan). 1978Former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir died. 1980John Lennon, former member of the Beatles, was shot and killed in New York City by a deranged fan. 1987President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers. 1993President Bill Clinton signed The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law.
  11. 1787Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1917The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I. 1941The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. 1972America's final moon mission, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral. 1975Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation. 1988A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000. 2001Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan. 2002Iraq formally declared to the UN that it had no weapons of mass destruction. 2004Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
  12. 1884Construction of the Washington Monument was completed. 1889Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans. 1923A presidential address was broadcast on the radio for the first time when Calvin Coolidge spoke before Congress. 1926French impressionist painter Claude Monet died at age 86. 1973Gerald Ford was sworn in as vice president, replacing Spiro T. Agnew. 1992The destruction of a mosque in India by Hindu extremists set off two months of Muslim-Hindu fighting that claimed at least 2,000 lives. 1998Hugo Chavez elected president of Venezuela.
  13. 1776The first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. 1791Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria, at age 35. 1848President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of 1848 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California. 1872Having left New York on Nov. 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing. 1933The 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing prohibition, was ratified. 1955The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO. 2002At Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.
  14. 1804Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII. 1823President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere. 1859Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry. 1942The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago. 1954The Senate voted to condemn Republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." 1970The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established. 1982Barney B. Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation. 1988Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head an Muslim nation. 1990Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90. 1999A Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for the first time in Northern Ireland. 2001Enron Corp., under CEO Kenneth Lay, filed for bankruptcy.
  15. 1824The presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority. 1887Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet." 1955Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. 1959Twelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity. 1997Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan, and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. President Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. 1998Exxon and Mobil agreed to merge, creating the world's largest corporation.
  16. 1804 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was tried for political bias. 1900Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46. 1940Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married. 1966Barbados became independent of Great Britain. 1974The fossilized remains of a female human ancestor named Lucy (after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) were found in Ethiopia. 1993The Brady Bill, requiring a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases, is signed. 1995President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland. 2004Ken Jennings ended his 74-game winning spree on the game show, Jeopardy!
  17. 1924Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot.'" 1929Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole. 1947The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine. 1963President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. 1986Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82. 2001Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.
  18. 1852Lord Byron's daughter Ada died. She had assisted Charles Babbage with his "analytical engine" and is credited with inventing computer language. 1895Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize. 1910New York's Pennsylvania Station opened. 1953Playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65. 1970Pope Paul VI was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. 1973Gerald R. Ford was confirmed by the Senate to become vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew. 2003President Bush secretly flew to Iraq to spend Thanksgiving with the troops.
  19. 1789The first national Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was proclaimed by President George Washington. 1922Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first to enter the tomb of King Tutankhamen (Tut) since it was sealed in 1323 B.C. 1940The Nazis began to force Warsaw's Jews to live in a walled ghetto. 1950China entered the Korean War. 1975Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, was found guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford. 1998Tony Blair became the first British prime minister to speak to the Irish parliament. 2000Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner in Florida's presidential balloting.
  20. 1758The British captured Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in the French and Indian Wars. 1783The British evacuated New York City, their last military position, after the Revolutionary War. 1841The slaves who seized the Amistad in 1839 were freed by the Supreme Court. They had been defended by former president John Quincy Adams. 1947Movie executives blacklisted the "Hollywood Ten." 1986Iran-Contra scandal broke. 1998Jiang Zemin became the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan since World War II. 1999Elian Gonzalez was rescued off the coast of Florida. 2002President George W. Bush signed into law the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as head.
  21. 1642 Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's land, later renamed Tasmania. 1859 Darwin's Origin of Species was published. 1871 The National Rifle Association was incorporated. 1963 Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's accused assassin, in the garage of Dallas police headquarters. 1971 D. B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines flight with $200,000.
  22. 1889The first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco. 1936First issue of Life magazine hit the newsstands. The cover photograph, by Margaret Bourke-White, featured the Fort Peck Dam. 1945U.S. wartime food rationing, of meat, butter, and other foods, ended. 1971People's Republic of China was seated at the UN Security Council. 2003Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as president of Georgia.
  23. 1497Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India. 1718Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed off the east coast of North America. 1842Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted. Ash fallout reached as far as 48 miles away. 1906"S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin. 1943President Franklin Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. 1963President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. 1990Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
  24. 1789 North Carolina became the 12th state. 1922 Georgia's Rebecca Felton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman U.S. Senator. 1934 Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes opened in New York City. 1969 For the first time since 1930, the U.S. Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, Clement Haynsworth. 1973 The 18 1/2 min gap in the Richard Nixon Watergate tapes was revealed. 1991 Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali was chosen to become secretary-general by the UN Security Council.
  25. 1789 New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. 1910 Francisco Madero began an armed revolt against the president of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz. 1945 The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg, Germany. 1947 The future Queen Elizabeth II married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Ediburgh. 1962 President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis. 1975 Spain's General Francisco Franco died. 2000 Peru's president Alberto Fujimori resigned.
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