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CaptainCrunch · 12-13-2017, 02:54 PM

Dec 13

1294 - Saint Celestine V resigns as Pope to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit

1545 - The Council of Trent begins

1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth England on his round the world voyage

1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized as the forming of the National Guard

1769 - Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock with a royal charter from King George III

1862 - General Robert E Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside at the Battle of Frederickburg

1937 - The Japanese defeat General Tang Shengzhi at the city of Nanking. The Japanese would would become responsible for the rape and murder of thousands during the Nanking Massacre

1938 - The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in Hamburg Germany

1939 - German Captain Hans Langsdorff of the Pocket Cruiser Admiral Graf Spee engages with the Royal Navy cruisers Exeter and Ajax and the HMNZS Achilles

1943 - The Massacre of Kalavytra by German forces occupying Greece

1949 - The Knesset votes to move the Capital of Israel to Jerusalem

1960 - When Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil his imperial bodyguard seizes the capital and declares his son Crown Prince Asfa Wossen Emperor

1962 - Nasa launches Relay 1 the first active repeater communications satallite

1972 - Eugene Carman and Harrison Schmitt begin their third and final moonwalk from the Apollo 17. They are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.

1988 - Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva after US authorities refuse to grant him a Visa to visit the UN in New York

2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near Tikrit

12-13-2017, 02:54 PM	#67
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	Dec 13 1294 - Saint Celestine V resigns as Pope to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit 1545 - The Council of Trent begins 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth England on his round the world voyage 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized as the forming of the National Guard 1769 - Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock with a royal charter from King George III 1862 - General Robert E Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside at the Battle of Frederickburg 1937 - The Japanese defeat General Tang Shengzhi at the city of Nanking. The Japanese would would become responsible for the rape and murder of thousands during the Nanking Massacre 1938 - The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in Hamburg Germany 1939 - German Captain Hans Langsdorff of the Pocket Cruiser Admiral Graf Spee engages with the Royal Navy cruisers Exeter and Ajax and the HMNZS Achilles 1943 - The Massacre of Kalavytra by German forces occupying Greece 1949 - The Knesset votes to move the Capital of Israel to Jerusalem 1960 - When Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil his imperial bodyguard seizes the capital and declares his son Crown Prince Asfa Wossen Emperor 1962 - Nasa launches Relay 1 the first active repeater communications satallite 1972 - Eugene Carman and Harrison Schmitt begin their third and final moonwalk from the Apollo 17. They are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. 1988 - Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva after US authorities refuse to grant him a Visa to visit the UN in New York 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near Tikrit __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!