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Re: This Day in History

8th December, 1980 : John Lennon shot
http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=3835
http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=1213
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December 8 1941:

Montanan Jeanette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress and a dedicated lifelong pacifist,
casts the sole Congressional vote against the U.S. declaration of war on Japan.
She was the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. involvement in both World Wars,
having been among those who voted against American entry into World War I nearly a quarter of a century earlier.

[Dec 8, 2008 11:00:31 PM]

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World War I Dec 9th, 1917 : Jerusalem surrenders to British troops

http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=8

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1901 : First Nobel Prizes awarded

http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=7107

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December 11 1872:

Already appearing as a well-known figure of the Wild West in popular dime novels,
Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance on this day,
in a Chicago-based production of "The Scouts of the Prairie."

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1941 : Germany declares war on the United States

http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6640

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December 12 1787:

Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the Constitution, by a vote of 46 to 23.
Pennsylvania was the first large state to ratify, as well as the first state to endure a serious Anti-Federalist challenge to ratification.

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1980 : Da Vinci notebook sells for over $5 million

http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=52287

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World War II
13th December, 1942 : Goebbels complains of Italians' treatment of Jews

http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6642

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December 13 1918:

President Woodrow Wilson arrives in France to take part in World War I peace negotiations and to promote his plan for a League of Nations,
an international organization for resolving conflicts between nations.

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