1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu

1989 Cold wave -4øF in Oklahoma City, -6øF in Tulsa, -12øF in Pittsburgh PA, -18øF in Denver CO, -23øF in Kansas City MO, -42øF in Scottsbluff NB, -47øF in Hardin MT and -60øF in Black Hills SD

1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait

1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen

1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president

1994 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi resigns dec23

1995 Quebec Lucien Bouchard announces that he is a candidate for the leadership of the Parti Québécois.

1996 Brett Hull becomes the 24th player in NHL history to score 500 goals when he notches a hat trick in the St. Louis Blues' 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Kings

1997 Coca-Cola went Christmas shopping on this day and came home with a rather hefty present Orangina, the "sparkling" French beverage formerly owned by Pernod Richard

1998 A particularly vicious virus invaded systems at MCI WorldCom. Unlike other viruses, the Remote Explorer bug was capable of damaging a system even if users did not download a file or open an e-mail attachment

1998 Microsoft was ordered to stop blocking holiday e-mail cards from Blue Mountain Arts

1894 French officer, Alfred Dreyfus, found guilty of selling secrets to Germany

1895 Wilhelm Rontgen, the German physicist, makes the first ever X-ray of his wife's hand

1639 The birth of Jean Racine, French playwright

1768 The birth of John Crome, English landscape painter

1858 The birth of Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer

1936 The birth of James Burke, British writer

2005 The U.S. Census Bureau releases its population estimates for 205.

2005 Industrial action by bus drivers in Tehran leads to the arrest of Mansour Osanlou and several other union activists.

2006 The Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a two week mission to the International Space Station.

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