1970 9 Jews are convicted in Lenningrad of hijacking a plane

1970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released

1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later

1973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200

1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds

1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released

1989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican embassy

1990 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's main target

1991 Mary Kinnear dies at age 93; appointed to the Senate 1967; one of Canada's first female senators.

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union

1871 Verdi's 'Aida' performed for the first time, in Cairo

1167 The birth of John I, King of England, responsible for signing the Magna Carta

1888 The birth of Michael Curtiz, American director

1905 The birth of Howard Hughes, American tycoon

2005 Pope Benedict XVI leads his first Christmas Midnight Mass as Pope, praying for peace in the Middle East.

2006 Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia.

2007 The Nepalese government announces that the country's 240-year-old monarchy will be abolished in 2008 and a new republic will be declared.

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