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Old 12-09-2007, 02:04 PM
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December 9th
1608 ~ Birthday of John Milton, Poet & Writer.

1868 ~ Birthday of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1918.

1906 ~ Birthday of Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer.

1937 ~ Battle of Nanjing began. The Rape of Nanjing followed.

1961 ~ Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel.

1987 ~ First Intifada began in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

1990 ~ Lech Wałęsa became the first directly elected president of Poland.

1992 ~ Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.

1996 ~ Death of Mary Leakey, Archeologist & Anthropologist.

2004 ~ Canada's Supreme Court ruled that homosexual marriage was constitutional.
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