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Events on the 11th of December in history

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11 Dec 0220 Cao Pi forces Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate the Han dynasty throne. The Cao Wei empire is established. The Three Kingdoms period begins.
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11 Dec 0361 Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.
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11 Dec 0384 St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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11 Dec 0630 Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
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11 Dec 0969 Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.
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11 Dec 1282 Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, in mid-Wales.
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11 Dec 1419 Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
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11 Dec 1477 Duchess Maria van Bourgondie ends Great Privilegie
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11 Dec 1572 Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem
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11 Dec 1602 A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.)
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11 Dec 1618 Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino
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11 Dec 1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12 / 21 NS)
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11 Dec 1665 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
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11 Dec 1665 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
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11 Dec 1688 Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, allegedly throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.
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11 Dec 1688 King James II arrested
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11 Dec 1710 Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
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11 Dec 1718 Battle at Frederikshall Norway
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11 Dec 1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
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11 Dec 1730 Voltaire's "Brutus" premieres in Paris
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11 Dec 1789 The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
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11 Dec 1792 French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
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11 Dec 1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
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11 Dec 1812 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
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11 Dec 1812 1st newspaper on Cura
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11 Dec 1815 The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
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11 Dec 1816 Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
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11 Dec 1816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
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11 Dec 1844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Connecticut
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11 Dec 1866 1st yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean
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11 Dec 1868 Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay.
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11 Dec 1872 1st black US Governor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (Louisiana)
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11 Dec 1882 Victorien Sardous "Fedora, " with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris
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11 Dec 1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
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11 Dec 1888 French Panama Canal company fails
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11 Dec 1888 French Panam
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11 Dec 1893 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
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11 Dec 1899 2nd defeat of "Black Week" - Battle of Magersfontein - Boer leader Cronj
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11 Dec 1901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Newfoundland
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11 Dec 1903 British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
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11 Dec 1905 A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
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11 Dec 1905 120
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11 Dec 1905 British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms
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11 Dec 1906 US President Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
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11 Dec 1907 The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
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11 Dec 1908 Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden" premieres
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11 Dec 1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York NY
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11 Dec 1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
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11 Dec 1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (San Francisco) completed
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11 Dec 1916 David Lloyd George forms British war government
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11 Dec 1917 World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
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11 Dec 1917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
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11 Dec 1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
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11 Dec 1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise AL
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11 Dec 1920 Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for an IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians also reported being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
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11 Dec 1925 Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
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11 Dec 1925 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas
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11 Dec 1926 Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
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11 Dec 1926 Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
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11 Dec 1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs New South Wales
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11 Dec 1927 Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
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11 Dec 1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover
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11 Dec 1928 National League President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers
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11 Dec 1930 Bank of the United States opens in New York NY
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11 Dec 1931 Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.
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11 Dec 1931 British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfoundland
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11 Dec 1931 Japan leaves the Golden Standard
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11 Dec 1932 San Francisco's coldest day (27
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11 Dec 1934 Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
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11 Dec 1934 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
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11 Dec 1934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
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11 Dec 1934 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland
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11 Dec 1934 National League votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
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11 Dec 1936 King Edward VIII marries Mrs Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne Duke of York becomes King George VI
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11 Dec 1936 Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India, becomes effective.
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11 Dec 1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson; Duke of York becomes King George VI
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11 Dec 1937 Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
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11 Dec 1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
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11 Dec 1937 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 30-7
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11 Dec 1938 New York Giants win NFL championship
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11 Dec 1939 New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
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11 Dec 1940 Russian General Zhukov warns of German assault
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11 Dec 1941 World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
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11 Dec 1941 World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
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11 Dec 1941 Germany & Italy declare war on US
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11 Dec 1941 Japanese occupy Guam
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11 Dec 1941 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
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11 Dec 1941 Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cardinals for 3 players & $50,000
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11 Dec 1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WWII-landing)
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11 Dec 1942 Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
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11 Dec 1944 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
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11 Dec 1945 Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
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11 Dec 1946 The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
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11 Dec 1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
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11 Dec 1946 Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
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11 Dec 1946 Spain suspended from UN
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11 Dec 1947 "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances
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11 Dec 1947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
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11 Dec 1947 Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in the Wings" premieres at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances
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11 Dec 1948 WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Dec 1948 1948 Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
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11 Dec 1948 WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
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11 Dec 1949 Chicago Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chicago Cardinals (52-29)
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11 Dec 1949 Cleveland Browns beat San Francisco '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
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11 Dec 1949 WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
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11 Dec 1950 Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
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11 Dec 1950 Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres
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11 Dec 1951 Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement
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11 Dec 1953 KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
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11 Dec 1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Virginia
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11 Dec 1954 Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
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11 Dec 1956 Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
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11 Dec 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra
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11 Dec 1958 French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
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11 Dec 1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
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11 Dec 1958 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls
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11 Dec 1958 Archibald MacLeish's "JB" premieres in New York NY
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11 Dec 1959 Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
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11 Dec 1960 French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle.
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11 Dec 1960 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
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11 Dec 1960 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
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11 Dec 1960 Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in New York NY
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11 Dec 1961 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
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11 Dec 1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
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11 Dec 1961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 weeks
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11 Dec 1961 JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
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11 Dec 1962 Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
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11 Dec 1964 Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
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11 Dec 1965 "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
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11 Dec 1965 "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
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11 Dec 1966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
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11 Dec 1967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
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11 Dec 1967 Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
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11 Dec 1967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
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11 Dec 1967 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
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11 Dec 1967 People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
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11 Dec 1968 The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.
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11 Dec 1968 US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband
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11 Dec 1968 KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
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11 Dec 1969 Libya adopts constitution
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11 Dec 1970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
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11 Dec 1970 Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, vs England
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11 Dec 1970 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
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11 Dec 1972 Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
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11 Dec 1972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on the Moon
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11 Dec 1972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
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11 Dec 1973 NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle and Vancouver franchises
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11 Dec 1973 Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
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11 Dec 1973 NA Soccer League awards Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
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11 Dec 1973 Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet
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11 Dec 1973 West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia
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11 Dec 1975 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
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11 Dec 1975 Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis and Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich
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11 Dec 1975 1st class postage rises from 10
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11 Dec 1977 Billboard Awards
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11 Dec 1978 The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
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11 Dec 1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 million in cash & jewelry
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11 Dec 1979 Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international
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11 Dec 1979 Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
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11 Dec 1980 The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
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11 Dec 1980 Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, New South Wales vs Victoria
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11 Dec 1981 El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
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11 Dec 1981 Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
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11 Dec 1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
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11 Dec 1981 UN Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Secretary-General
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11 Dec 1981 Washington Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
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11 Dec 1981 Argentine President/General Roberto Viola flees
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11 Dec 1983 Jan Stephens / Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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11 Dec 1983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
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11 Dec 1983 72nd Australian Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64)
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11 Dec 1984 "Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 performances
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11 Dec 1984 Mauretania military coup under Colonel Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
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11 Dec 1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
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11 Dec 1985 Edmonton Oilers (36) & Chicago Black Hawks (26) score NHL record 62 points
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11 Dec 1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
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11 Dec 1985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (17) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals
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11 Dec 1985 Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
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11 Dec 1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
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11 Dec 1986 South Africa censors press
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11 Dec 1987 Test debut of Carl Hooper, West Indies vs India at Bombay
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11 Dec 1989 "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
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11 Dec 1989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year Kansas City Royals contract
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11 Dec 1990 Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
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11 Dec 1990 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga TN (I-75), due to fog
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11 Dec 1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
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11 Dec 1991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
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11 Dec 1992 Nor'easter storm hits New York, doing $650 million+ worth of damage
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11 Dec 1992 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
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11 Dec 1993 Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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11 Dec 1993 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)
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11 Dec 1993 Eduardo Frei elected President of Chile
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11 Dec 1994 First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
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11 Dec 1994 A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
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11 Dec 1994 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
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11 Dec 1994 Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjeni
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11 Dec 1995 Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
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11 Dec 1997 "Sunshine Boys, " opens at Lyceum Theater, New York City
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11 Dec 1997 The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
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11 Dec 1997 "Sunshine Boys" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
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11 Dec 1997 Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
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11 Dec 1998 Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
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11 Dec 2001 The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
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11 Dec 2005 The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom.
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11 Dec 2005 Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
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11 Dec 2006 The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
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11 Dec 2006 Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
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11 Dec 2007 Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.
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11 Dec 2008 Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
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11 Dec 2012 At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
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11 Dec 2014 The city of Detroit, Michigan emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history.[1]
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