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Posted: Dec 29, 2016 - 4:58am
1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

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Posted: Dec 28, 2016 - 6:07am
1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.

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Posted: Dec 27, 2016 - 4:58am
2004 – Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.

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Posted: Dec 27, 2016 - 4:55am
1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.

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Posted: Dec 26, 2016 - 6:57am
1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.

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Posted: Dec 24, 2016 - 6:25am
1968 – Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.

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Posted: Dec 24, 2016 - 6:24am
1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

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Posted: Dec 24, 2016 - 6:23am
1865 – The Ku Klux Klan is formed.

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Posted: Dec 23, 2016 - 7:00am
1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

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Posted: Dec 23, 2016 - 7:00am
1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.

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Posted: Dec 22, 2016 - 4:38am
December 22, 1973 – Stephen Stills loses a paternity suit brought against him by Harriet B. Tunis. Stills’ defense team had tried to discredit Tunis’ case by asking the jury, “How can you believe a witness who works in the record business?”

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Posted: Dec 21, 2016 - 6:19am
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

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Posted: Dec 21, 2016 - 6:18am
1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

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Posted: Dec 20, 2016 - 5:27am
1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

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Posted: Dec 16, 2016 - 6:11am
1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

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Posted: Dec 15, 2016 - 6:10am
2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.

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Posted: Dec 15, 2016 - 6:10am
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan

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Posted: Dec 15, 2016 - 6:09am
1973 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

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Posted: Dec 15, 2016 - 6:09am
1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet

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Posted: Dec 15, 2016 - 6:08am
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.

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