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1903 -Ryan Walker of the New York Times publishes a cartoon titled 'The Annexer 'll Git You ef You Don't Watch Out' pertaining to Uncle Sam scooping up Panama.

Source: http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/ail/panama.html

News: 50 years ago

1953 - The aircraft Eagle Aviation Vickers 610 Viking 1B ran off the runway at Numberg Airport and tipped onto its nose as braking action after touchdown was poor because of ice on the runway. There were no fatalities.

Source: http://aviation-safety.net/database/1953/531220-0.htm

News: 25 years ago
1978 - H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail.

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News: 10 years ago
1993 - The Washington Post publishes a column by Theodore B. Olsen, attorney for Jonathan Pollard who was accused of spying against the United States for Israel.

Source: http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1993/122093.htm

News: 5 years ago
1998 - Fox News Sunday had interviews of politicians regarding the impeachment of Pres. Bill Clinton and the situation in Iraq.

Source: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~aaron2/fox/titles/foxnews3.html

News: 1 year ago
2002- On the Online NewsHour, Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss Sen. Trent Lott's decision to step aside as the Senate's GOP leader, the developments on the Iraq front and Al Gore's announcement he will not seek the presidency in 2004.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/political_wrap/july-dec02/sb_12-20.html

December 20th happenings in history!

Births:

1833 - Dr Samuel A Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Pres. Abraham Lincoln was born.

1906 - Dick White, head of British secret service (MI-5/MI-6) was born.

1906 - Lowell Gilmore Minnesota, actor (Living Christ Series) was born.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Deaths:

1968 - John Steinbeck, author of Grapes of Wrath, and Nobel Prize winner in 1962) dies in New York at 66.

1971 - Roy O Disney Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78.

1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA.

1988 - Max Robinson 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49.

1993 - W Edwards Deming, U.S. economist who helped Japan after WWII, dies at 93.

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Entertainment:

1920 - Bob Hope becomes an American citizen.

1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service.

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Inventions:

1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket RI).

1879 - Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park.

1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse NY.

1900 - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft).

1919 - Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM).

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News:

1669 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery.

1699 - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1.

1780 - England declares war on Netherlands.

1803 - Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27 million.

1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50.

1850 - Hawaiian post office established.

1860 - South Carolina votes 169-0 for Ordinance of Secession, 1st state to secede.

1893 - 1st state anti-lynching statute approved, in Georgia.

1917 - Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski.

1919 - US House of Representatives restricts immigration.

1922 - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR).

1942 - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta.

1945 - Rationing of auto tires ends in US.

1960 - Auschwitz-commandant Richard Bär arrested in German Federal Republic.

1963 - Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners.

1963 - Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins.

1964 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government.

1967 - 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam.

1971 - Pakistan President Yahya Khan resigns.

1976 -Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns.

1977 - 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut.

1983 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon.

1983 - El Salvador adopts constitution.

1987 - Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz ferry sinks after collision with oil tanker Vector; 1,749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3,000).

1988 - Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London.

1988 - NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years.

1990 - Pentagon warns Saddam Hussein that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15.

1992 - Slobodan Milosevic re-elected President of Serbia.

1999 - Portugal returns Macau to China.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Religion:

1552 - Death of Katherine von Bora, 53, a former nun and the widow of German reformer Martin Luther. They married in 1525, when Luther was 42 and Katie was 26, and bore six children. Luther died in 1546; Katie, six years later.

1787 - A revival broke out among the Shakers of New Lebanon, Indiana, soon igniting a religious fervor among other denominations, especially in Kentucky and other colonial frontier regions.

1961 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.'

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987

Sports:

1921 - American League votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while National League votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7.

1980 - NBC broadcasts New York Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio.

1981 - Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) & most turnoves (10).

1985 - Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Compiled by Ramesh C. Reddy

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