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Events on the 18th of December in history

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18 Dec 0218 Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
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18 Dec 1118 Alfonso van Arag
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18 Dec 1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
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18 Dec 1352 Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
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18 Dec 1406 Anton van Bourgondies becomes duke of Brabant
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18 Dec 1603 Admiral Steven van der Haghens fleet departs to East-Indies
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18 Dec 1621 English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
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18 Dec 1622 Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
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18 Dec 1655 The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
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18 Dec 1719 Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children"
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18 Dec 1774 Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia
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18 Dec 1774 Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa
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18 Dec 1777 The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over British General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
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18 Dec 1777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
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18 Dec 1783 English king George III fires government of Portland
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18 Dec 1787 New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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18 Dec 1793 Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
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18 Dec 1796 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
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18 Dec 1799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
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18 Dec 1813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
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18 Dec 1832 Charles Darwin visits Vurland
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18 Dec 1839 1st celestial photograph (the moon) made in US, John Draper, New York NY
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18 Dec 1849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
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18 Dec 1858 Passy, at Paris: 1st "Samedi soir" i / d villa of lovers Rossini
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18 Dec 1859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
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18 Dec 1862 Battle at Lexington TN (Forrest's Second Raid)
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18 Dec 1865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
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18 Dec 1865 US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the United States.
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18 Dec 1865 1st US cattle importation law passed
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18 Dec 1867 The Angola Horror train wreck occurred.
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18 Dec 1869 Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game
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18 Dec 1878 John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
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18 Dec 1878 The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar
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18 Dec 1878 French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed
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18 Dec 1888 Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
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18 Dec 1890 Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda
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18 Dec 1892 Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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18 Dec 1892 Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, premieres
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18 Dec 1892 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres
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18 Dec 1894 Cricket day 4 1T Australia vs England England following on 4-268, 7 in front
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18 Dec 1898 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car
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18 Dec 1898 Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
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18 Dec 1899 Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
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18 Dec 1900 The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
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18 Dec 1905 H V Hordern takes 8-81 in 2nd innings of F-C debut (New South Wales vs Queensland)
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18 Dec 1912 The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
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18 Dec 1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
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18 Dec 1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
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18 Dec 1917 The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
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18 Dec 1917 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
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18 Dec 1920 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
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18 Dec 1923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
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18 Dec 1930 Bradman scores 258 New South Wales vs South Australia, 289 minutes, 37 fours
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18 Dec 1932 The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL Championship Game.
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18 Dec 1932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
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18 Dec 1935 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
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18 Dec 1935 Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia
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18 Dec 1935 Edward Benes becomes President of Czechoslovakia
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18 Dec 1936 1st giant panda imported into US
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18 Dec 1936 Queensland cricket all out for 49 vs Victoria, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17
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18 Dec 1936 Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in San Francisco
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18 Dec 1939 World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
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18 Dec 1939 Finnish army recaptures Agl
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18 Dec 1941 German submarine U-434 sinks
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18 Dec 1941 Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
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18 Dec 1944 Destroyers "Hull, " "Spence" and"Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines)
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18 Dec 1944 World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
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18 Dec 1944 Destroyers "Hull", "Spence" & "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines)
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18 Dec 1944 Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
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18 Dec 1945 Uruguay joins UN
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18 Dec 1945 Uruguay joins the United Nations
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18 Dec 1946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
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18 Dec 1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax
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18 Dec 1948 Indonesia begins its 2nd political election
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18 Dec 1948 WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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18 Dec 1949 Philadelphia Eagles beat Los Angeles Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
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18 Dec 1952 Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president
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18 Dec 1953 KMID TV channel 2 in Midland and Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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18 Dec 1953 KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
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18 Dec 1956 Japan admitted to UN
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18 Dec 1956 "To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV
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18 Dec 1956 Japan joins the United Nations.
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18 Dec 1956 Japan admitted to the United Nations
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18 Dec 1956 "To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV
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18 Dec 1956 Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai
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18 Dec 1956 Phil Rizzuto signs as New York Yankee radio-TV announcer
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18 Dec 1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Station, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
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18 Dec 1958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
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18 Dec 1958 Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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18 Dec 1958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment
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18 Dec 1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
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18 Dec 1959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of New York Titans (AFL)
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18 Dec 1960 General Meeting of the UN condemns apartheid
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18 Dec 1960 General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid
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18 Dec 1961 For 2nd consecutive year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
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18 Dec 1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
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18 Dec 1961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs Los Angeles
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18 Dec 1961 Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles
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18 Dec 1961 KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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18 Dec 1962 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
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18 Dec 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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18 Dec 1962 WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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18 Dec 1963 Muskegon MI gets 3' of snow
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18 Dec 1963 Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6)
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18 Dec 1964 "I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 199 performances
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18 Dec 1964 "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink)
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18 Dec 1964 During services held for Sam Cooke, fans caused damage to Funeral Home
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18 Dec 1965 "La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St. Theater NYC after 7 performances
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18 Dec 1965 Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
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18 Dec 1965 Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
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18 Dec 1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
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18 Dec 1966 Dr Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
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18 Dec 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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18 Dec 1969 "Coco" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 333 performances
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18 Dec 1969 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
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18 Dec 1969 Britain abolishes death penalty
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18 Dec 1970 "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 performances
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18 Dec 1970 Polish uprising fails
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18 Dec 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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18 Dec 1971 Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
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18 Dec 1971 1st Candlelight Processional
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18 Dec 1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chicago
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18 Dec 1971 CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts
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18 Dec 1971 US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=
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18 Dec 1972 Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
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18 Dec 1972 US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
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18 Dec 1973 Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
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18 Dec 1973 The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
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18 Dec 1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
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18 Dec 1973 Yankees sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by American League president
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18 Dec 1974 San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens
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18 Dec 1976 "A Star is Born, " with Barbra Striesand, premieres
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18 Dec 1976 "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC
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18 Dec 1976 "A Star is Born", with Barbra Streisand, premieres
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18 Dec 1976 "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC
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18 Dec 1976 Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovski exchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
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18 Dec 1977 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey #42 (Nate Thumond)
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18 Dec 1977 Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
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18 Dec 1978 Dominica joins the United Nations.
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18 Dec 1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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18 Dec 1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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18 Dec 1979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
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18 Dec 1980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden
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18 Dec 1980 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
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18 Dec 1980 IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
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18 Dec 1980 Vietnam adopts constitution
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18 Dec 1982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
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18 Dec 1983 NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
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18 Dec 1984 73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1)
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18 Dec 1985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
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18 Dec 1985 "Jerry's Girls" opens at St James Theater NYC for 139 performances
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18 Dec 1986 Mr Gates serves as acting director of CIA
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18 Dec 1987 Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
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18 Dec 1987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari
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18 Dec 1987 Ivan F Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading
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18 Dec 1988 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs
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18 Dec 1988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
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18 Dec 1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
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18 Dec 1989 The European Economic Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
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18 Dec 1989 Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa" premieres in New York NY
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18 Dec 1990 NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
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18 Dec 1990 National League announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Washington DC as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
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18 Dec 1991 DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
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18 Dec 1991 General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants
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18 Dec 1992 FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations
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18 Dec 1993 Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
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18 Dec 1994 "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 8 performances
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18 Dec 1994 "What's Wrong With this Pic?" closes at Circle in Square NYC after 12 performances
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18 Dec 1994 Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
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18 Dec 1994 General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro & Jack Wagner wed
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18 Dec 1994 Norman, Couples & Azinger win LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Golf Challenge
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18 Dec 1994 Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
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18 Dec 1996 Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe & England
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18 Dec 1996 TV industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system
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18 Dec 1997 HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
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18 Dec 1999 NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
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18 Dec 2002 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
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18 Dec 2005 The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
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18 Dec 2006 The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
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18 Dec 2006 United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
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