12-11-2007, 03:27 PM
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December 11th
1725 ~ Birthday of George Mason, "Father of the Bill of Rights".
1803 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer.
1882 ~ Birthday of Max Born, physicist and 1954 Nobel laureate.
1918 ~ Birthday of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, 1970 Nobel laureate.
1931 ~ The Statute of Westminster gave legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland.
1941 ~ Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
1943 ~ King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1994 ~ A small bomb exploded on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. The bombing was a test of explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka.
1994 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered Russian troops into Chechnya.
1997 ~ The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was made available for signature.
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