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Dec 04 Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83. 
Dec 05 Newspapers reported that Microsoft had struck deals with several computer makers that would give it a significant advantage The companies would not be allowed to use Windows unless Microsoft's screen came up immediately when users logged on. Hey mine does
Dec 05 Peter Hall, folklorist/musician, dies at 60.
Dec 06 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83.
Dec 07 Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself at 43.
Dec 08 Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46.
Dec 09 Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician, dies at 87.
Dec 11 Herbert Sally Frankel, economist, dies at 93.
Dec 14 Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92
Dec 15 Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74.
Dec 16 IBM announced on this day in 1996 it would stop selling computers that used that PowerPC chip and ran Windows NT. IBM, Motorola, and Apple had teamed up to challenge Intel Corporation's dominance in chips and Microsoft's near monopoly on operating systems
Dec 17 Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
Dec 17 Intel Corporation and the Energy Department announced the development of a high-speed computer capable of performing more than one trillion calculations per second
Dec 18 Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74.
Dec 19 Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8½, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72.
Dec 20 Amata Kabua, Pres of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies.
Dec 21 Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90.
Dec 22 Brett Hull is recorded as becoming 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.
Dec 22 Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81.
Dec 23 Rina Ketty, singer, dies at 85
Dec 24 Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77
Dec 26 Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey is are discovered beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado, home. The killing remains unsolved.
Dec 29 A peace accord is signed in Guatemala, ending 36 years of civil unrest there
Dec 29 Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77.
Dec 30 Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53
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