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Events on the 13th of December in history

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13 Dec 0863 Boudouin with the Iron Arm weds Charles de Kales' daughter Judith
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13 Dec 1294 Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
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13 Dec 1294 Pope Coelestinus V ends term
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13 Dec 1545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
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13 Dec 1545 The Council of Trent begins.
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13 Dec 1545 Pope Paul III opens Council of Trente (19th ecumenical council)
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13 Dec 1570 Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin
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13 Dec 1572 Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under Admiral Lumey
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13 Dec 1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
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13 Dec 1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
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13 Dec 1621 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
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13 Dec 1636 The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
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13 Dec 1642 Abel Tasman reaches New Zealand.
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13 Dec 1642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
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13 Dec 1643 English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
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13 Dec 1668 Jean Racines "Britannicus, " premieres in Paris
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13 Dec 1734 England & Russia sign trade agreement
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13 Dec 1742 Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes
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13 Dec 1758 The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
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13 Dec 1759 1st music store in America opens (Philadelphia)
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13 Dec 1769 Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
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13 Dec 1769 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
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13 Dec 1774 1st incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort William & Mary, New Hampshire
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13 Dec 1816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
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13 Dec 1823 Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
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13 Dec 1833 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonie
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13 Dec 1843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
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13 Dec 1861 Battle of Alleghany Summit, West Virginia
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13 Dec 1861 Battle of Alleghany Summit WV
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13 Dec 1862 American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.
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13 Dec 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg VA (Marye's Heights); South beats North
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13 Dec 1864 Battle of Ft McAllister, Georgia
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13 Dec 1867 A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, England, killing six.
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13 Dec 1879 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
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13 Dec 1889 Belgium rules on women/child labor law
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13 Dec 1895 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony
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13 Dec 1900 Battle at Nooitgedacht: Generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
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13 Dec 1901 Test debut of S F Barnes vs Australia SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings
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13 Dec 1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (New Jersey)
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13 Dec 1903 Wright Brothers make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
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13 Dec 1906 German chancellor Bernhard von B
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13 Dec 1907 George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut vs Australia SCG
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13 Dec 1907 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
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13 Dec 1913 Mona Lisa stolen in August 1911 returned to Louvre
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13 Dec 1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol
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13 Dec 1916 Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
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13 Dec 1916 French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
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13 Dec 1918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany
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13 Dec 1918 Woodrow Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as President (France)
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13 Dec 1919 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
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13 Dec 1920 F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
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13 Dec 1920 League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague
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13 Dec 1920 Netherlands breaks contact with kingdoms of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
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13 Dec 1922 Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
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13 Dec 1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
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13 Dec 1928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York NY)
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13 Dec 1928 Clip-on tie designed
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13 Dec 1930 George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
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13 Dec 1930 Theodore Steeg forms French government
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13 Dec 1934 Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Brothers) opens at 237 W 51st St New York NY
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13 Dec 1936 Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Washington DC
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13 Dec 1936 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
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13 Dec 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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13 Dec 1938 The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
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13 Dec 1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28
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13 Dec 1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.
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13 Dec 1939 Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
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13 Dec 1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Romania declare war on the United States.
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13 Dec 1941 German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherlands Union
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13 Dec 1941 Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
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13 Dec 1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
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13 Dec 1942 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
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13 Dec 1942 Washington Redskins defeat Chicago Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
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13 Dec 1943 World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
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13 Dec 1943 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
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13 Dec 1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
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13 Dec 1944 Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth" premieres in New York NY
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13 Dec 1946 L
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13 Dec 1947 "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 performances
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13 Dec 1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
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13 Dec 1949 AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
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13 Dec 1949 The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
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13 Dec 1949 American League votes down proposal to revive the spitball
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13 Dec 1949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capitol to Jerusalem
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13 Dec 1950 "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
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13 Dec 1950 James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
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13 Dec 1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
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13 Dec 1953 KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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13 Dec 1956 Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires
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13 Dec 1959 Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
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13 Dec 1959 Archbishop Makarios elected 1st President of Cyprus
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13 Dec 1960 While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
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13 Dec 1960 Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
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13 Dec 1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
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13 Dec 1961 Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
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13 Dec 1961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
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13 Dec 1961 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music's 1st million $ seller
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13 Dec 1962 NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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13 Dec 1962 Relay 1 communication satellite launched
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13 Dec 1963 Capitol records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with the Beatles
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13 Dec 1964 Shirley Englehorn and Sam Snead wins Haig and Haig Mixed Foursome Golf
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13 Dec 1964 In El Paso TX, LBJ & Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-M
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13 Dec 1965 Algerian President Boum
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13 Dec 1966 Test debut of Clive Lloyd, vs. India Bombay, 82 and 78
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13 Dec 1966 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
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13 Dec 1966 1st US bombing of Hanoi
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13 Dec 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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13 Dec 1967 Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.
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13 Dec 1967 United Soccer Association & National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
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13 Dec 1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
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13 Dec 1968 Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
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13 Dec 1968 Playland at the Beach reopens
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13 Dec 1968 President Da Costa e Silva of Brazil disbands parliament/grabs power
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13 Dec 1969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
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13 Dec 1969 Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
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13 Dec 1970 Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut vs England at the WACA
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13 Dec 1970 Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady" premieres in New York NY
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13 Dec 1971 John Sinclair (sentenced to 10 years for selling 2 marijuana joints) is freed
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13 Dec 1972 Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
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13 Dec 1973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
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13 Dec 1973 MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
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13 Dec 1974 Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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13 Dec 1974 Malta becomes a republic
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13 Dec 1974 Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
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13 Dec 1975 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
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13 Dec 1975 Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election
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13 Dec 1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
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13 Dec 1975 Roy Fredericks hits 169 vs Australia at WACA, hundred in 71 balls
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13 Dec 1976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
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13 Dec 1976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
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13 Dec 1976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13 hours 14 minutes)
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13 Dec 1977 A DC-3 aircraft chartered from the Indianapolis-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff and boosters of the team.
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13 Dec 1977 Entire University of Evansville basketball team (14 players) die in plane crash
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13 Dec 1978 Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
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13 Dec 1979 "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
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13 Dec 1979 The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election.
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13 Dec 1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
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13 Dec 1980 "Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 performances
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13 Dec 1981 General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
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13 Dec 1981 Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
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13 Dec 1981 70th Davis Cup: USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1)
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13 Dec 1982 Devils' 1st hat trick-Steve Tambellini
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13 Dec 1982 71st Australian Men's Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62)
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13 Dec 1982 Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
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13 Dec 1983 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
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13 Dec 1983 Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
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13 Dec 1983 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
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13 Dec 1983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
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13 Dec 1983 British Airways incorporates
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13 Dec 1984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
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13 Dec 1985 Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh and Bruce Reid (vs. India)
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13 Dec 1985 David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 vs India at Adelaide
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13 Dec 1987 Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
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13 Dec 1987 Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
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13 Dec 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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13 Dec 1988 PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.
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13 Dec 1988 3 men end 29-hour all-466-station subway ride in New York NY
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13 Dec 1988 Yasser Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
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13 Dec 1989 The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint – The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.
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13 Dec 1989 Forced repatriation of Vietnamese in Hong Kong
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13 Dec 1989 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
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13 Dec 1990 "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
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13 Dec 1990 President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
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13 Dec 1990 Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
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13 Dec 1991 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconciliation
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13 Dec 1991 New York assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
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13 Dec 1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
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13 Dec 1992 "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
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13 Dec 1992 Dawn Coe-Jones wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
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13 Dec 1992 FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
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13 Dec 1993 Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
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13 Dec 1993 Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
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13 Dec 1993 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
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13 Dec 1993 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5) lands
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13 Dec 1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in North Carolina, killing 15
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13 Dec 1995 Christopher Reeve is released from physical rehab center
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13 Dec 1995 US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
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13 Dec 1996 Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays
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13 Dec 1997 63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)
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13 Dec 2000 The "Texas Seven" escape from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
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13 Dec 2001 Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
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13 Dec 2002 European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
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13 Dec 2003 Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
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13 Dec 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is adopted.
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13 Dec 2011 A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.
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13 Dec 2014 Landslides caused by heavy rain in Java, Indonesia, kill at least 56 people.
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