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CaptainCrunch · 12-15-2017, 03:45 PM

December 15

1161 - Military officers conspire against the Emperor Wanyan Liang of the Jin dynasty after a defeat at the Battle of Caishi, they assasinate him at his camp

1178 - British and French fleets clash at the Battle of Saint Lucia during the American Revolutionary War

1791 - The United States Bill of Whites becomes Law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly

1864 - The Army of the Cumberland finishes the Army of Tennessee during the battle of Nashville

1890 Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rick Indian Reservation leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre

1914 - The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the Invading Austro-Hungarian Army

1917 - An armistice between Russian and the Central Powers is signed

1933 - The Twenty-first Amendment of the US Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of Alcohol

1939 - Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia

1941 - German troops murder 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar

1942 - The battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horses and the Sea Horse begin during the Guadalcanal Campaign

1945 - General MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan

1961 - Adolf Eichmann is sentence to death after being found goilty by an Israeli Court of 16 criminal charges including crimes against humanity

1965 - Gemini 6a crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford is launched from Cape Kennedy. Four orbits later it successfully achieves the first space rendezvous with Gemini 8

1970 - Soviet Spacecraft Venera 7 lands on Venus, it is the first successful soft landing on another planet

1972 - The American Psychiatric Association votes 130-1 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders

1978 - Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the Perople's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan

1981 - A suicide car bombing targets the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, 61 people including the Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon are killed. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing

2000 - The third reactor at Chernobyl is shut down

2005 - the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor enters US active service, with a fly over of Awesome town

12-15-2017, 03:45 PM	#72
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	December 15 1161 - Military officers conspire against the Emperor Wanyan Liang of the Jin dynasty after a defeat at the Battle of Caishi, they assasinate him at his camp 1178 - British and French fleets clash at the Battle of Saint Lucia during the American Revolutionary War 1791 - The United States Bill of Whites becomes Law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly 1864 - The Army of the Cumberland finishes the Army of Tennessee during the battle of Nashville 1890 Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rick Indian Reservation leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre 1914 - The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the Invading Austro-Hungarian Army 1917 - An armistice between Russian and the Central Powers is signed 1933 - The Twenty-first Amendment of the US Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of Alcohol 1939 - Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia 1941 - German troops murder 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar 1942 - The battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horses and the Sea Horse begin during the Guadalcanal Campaign 1945 - General MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan 1961 - Adolf Eichmann is sentence to death after being found goilty by an Israeli Court of 16 criminal charges including crimes against humanity 1965 - Gemini 6a crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford is launched from Cape Kennedy. Four orbits later it successfully achieves the first space rendezvous with Gemini 8 1970 - Soviet Spacecraft Venera 7 lands on Venus, it is the first successful soft landing on another planet 1972 - The American Psychiatric Association votes 130-1 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders 1978 - Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the Perople's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan 1981 - A suicide car bombing targets the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, 61 people including the Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon are killed. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing 2000 - The third reactor at Chernobyl is shut down 2005 - the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor enters US active service, with a fly over of Awesome town __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!