1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices

1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act

1983 Journal Science publishes first report on nuclear winter

1986 Voyager completes global flight, Rutan and Yeager make around-the-world flight without refueling

1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison

1990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia

1991 New York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns

1777 The birth of Alexander I, Tsar of Russia during Napoleon's disastrous campaign

1805 The birth of Joseph Smith, American Mormon leader

2005 Lech Kaczynski is sworn in as the President of Poland in Warsaw, Poland.

2005 Death of Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (b. 1931)

2005 U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following Iraqi elections.

2005 Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.

2005 Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adre, which left about 10 people dead.

2005 Trial of Tali Fahima ends in a plea bargain.

2007 A grand conjunction in which the solar system will align with the galactic center.

2007 A general election is held in Thailand. The People's Power Party, which is associated with former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra, wins a majority of seats in the parliament.

2007 Presidential election in Uzbekistan.

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