1958 Test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip

1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu

1963 Muskegon, MI gets 3' of snow

1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission

1969 Britain abolishes death penalty

1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic

1972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam

1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days

1974 San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens

1978 John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires, is executed in Pennsylvania. The Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society that had allegedly been responsible for some incidences of vigilante justice in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania

1979 Stanley Barrett first to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)

1980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden

1982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds

1984 Christopher Guest (Saturday Night Live) and actress Jamie Lee Curtis are married in Los Angeles.

1985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"

1987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari

1987 Federal Judge Morris E. Lasker sentenced Ivan Boesky,the once mighty arbitrageur to a three-year prison term

1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for first time in over 30 years

1991 DeForest Kelly, who portrayed Dr. "Bones" McCoy on Star Trek, gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1991 General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants

1865 Slavery abolished throughout America

1903 Panama Canal Zone acquired 'in perpetuity', by the USA for an annual rent

1967 The British traitor Kim Philby made a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' in Moscow

1879 The birth of Paul Klee, Swiss Painter

1913 The birth of Willy Brandt, German statesman

1916 The birth of Betty Grable, American actress

2005 Evo Morales wins the Bolivian Presidential Elections.

2005 Death of Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)

2005 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke. He was released from the hospital two days later.

2005 The World Trade Organization 6th ministerial conference concludes in Hong Kong with a limited trade deal being ratified.

2007 The Verkhovna Rada has approved Yulia Tymoshenko to become Prime Minister of Ukraine.

2007 Jacob Zuma is elected president of the African National Congress political party in South Africa during the party's national conference.

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