What happend on 20. December in History
In our data base we found 306 events happened on 20. December:
• 69: Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. [category: Events]
• 217: Pope Zephyrinus [category: Deaths]
• 217: The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity. [category: Events]
• 860: Æthelbald of Wessex (b. 834) [category: Deaths]
• 1022: Elvira Mendes, Portuguese wife of Alfonso V of León (b. 996) [category: Deaths]
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1192: Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third Crusade.
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1355: Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (b. 1308)
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1494: Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)
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1494: Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (b. 1434)
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1522: Siege of Rhodes: Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
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1524: Thomas Linacre, English physician and scholar (b. 1460)
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1537: John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
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1539: Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506)
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1590: Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
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1606: The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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1626: Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German politician (d. 1692)
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1629: Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
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1717: Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French politician and diplomat (d. 1787)
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1722: Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
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1723: Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)
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1740: Arthur Lee, American diplomat (d. 1792)
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1740: Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and politician (b. 1675)
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1765: Louis, Dauphin of France (b. 1729)
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1768: Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
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1783: Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1729)
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1786: Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
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1792: Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
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1803: The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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1808: Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
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1812: Sacagawea, American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1788)
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1833: Samuel Mudd, American physician (d. 1883)
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1838: Edwin Abbott Abbott, English educator, theologian, and author (d. 1926)
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1841: Ferdinand Buisson, French politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
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1856: Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820)
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1860: Dan Leno, English actor (d. 1904)
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1860: South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
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1861: Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
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1862: Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)
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1865: Elsie de Wolfe, American actress and interior decorator (d. 1950)
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1868: Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (d. 1938)
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1869: Charley Grapewin, American actor (d. 1956)
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1873: Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (d. 1948)
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1874: Frederick Steep, Canadian soccer player (d. 1956)
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1880: Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American soldier (b. 1797)
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1881: Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)
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1886: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (d. 1974)
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1888: Fred Merkle, American baseball player (d. 1958)
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1888: Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian (d. 1980)
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1890: Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
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1890: Yvonne Arnaud, French-English actress and singer (d. 1958)
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1894: Robert Menzies, Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
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1898: Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
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1898: Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1973)
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1901: Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist, invented the Van de Graaff generator (d. 1967)
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1902: Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
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1902: Sidney Hook, American author (d. 1989)
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1904: Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1984)
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1904: Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian philosopher (d. 1977)
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1905: Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
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1907: Paul Francis Webster, American songwriter (d. 1984)
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1908: Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
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1909: Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000)
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1911: Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009)
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1914: Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American politician
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1915: Aziz Nesin, Turkish author (d. 1995)
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1915: Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)
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1915: World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
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1916: Michel Chartrand, Canadian union leader (d. 2010)
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1916: Louis de Champsavin, French horse rider (b. 1867)
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1917: David Bohm, American-English physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
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1917: Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist (b. 1882)
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1917: Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
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1918: Audrey Totter, American actress
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1918: Jean Marchand, Canadian trade unionist and politician (d. 1988)
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1920: Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
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1921: Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
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1922: Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter
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1922: George Roy Hill, American director (d. 2002)
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1924: Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author, and broadcaster (d. 1980)
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1924: Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
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1925: Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
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1926: Geoffrey Howe, Welsh politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1926: Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
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1927: Charlie Callas, American actor (d. 2011)
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1927: Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician, 7th President of South Korea
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1927: Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
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1929: Émile Loubet, French politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)
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1931: Mala Powers, American actress (d. 2007)
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1931: Terry Sanders, American director and producer
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1932: John Hillerman, American actor
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1932: Leslie Adams, American composer and educator
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1933: Jean Carnahan, American politician
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1933: Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist
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1935: Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricketer
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1935: Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian soldier (b. 1882)
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1937: Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
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1938: John Harbison, American composer
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1938: Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)
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1938: Matilda Howell, American archer (b. 1859)
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1940: Pat Chapman, English author, founder The Curry Club
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1941: Tommy Cole, American actor, singer, and makeup artist
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1941: Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
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1941: World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
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1942: Jean-Claude Trichet, French banker and economist
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1942: Rana Bhagwandas, Pakistani judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan
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1942: World War II: the Japanese bomb Calcutta.
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1944: Bobby Colomby, American drummer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
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1944: Jean Fergusson, English actress
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1945: Peter Criss, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Kiss, Wicked Lester, and Chelsea)
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1945: Sivakant Tiwari, Singaporean lawyer (d. 2010)
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1946: Dick Wolf, American director, screenwriter, and producer
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1946: John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
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1946: Lesley Judd, English dancer and television host
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1946: Lloyd Mumphord, American football player
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1946: Sonny Perdue, American politician, 81st Governor of Georgia
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1946: Uri Geller, Israeli psychic
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1946: The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York, New York.
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1947: Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer-songwriter and journalist
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1948: Alan Parsons, English keyboard player and producer (The Alan Parsons Project)
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1948: Stevie Wright, English-Australian singer-songwriter (The Easybeats)
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1949: Cecil Cooper, American baseball player
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1949: Leigh Hamilton, New Zealand-American actress (d. 2012)
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1949: Oscar Gamble, American baseball player
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1949: Soumaïla Cissé, Malian politician
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1950: Arturo Márquez, Mexican composer
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1951: Gilbert Montagné, French singer-songwriter and pianist
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1951: Peter May, Scottish author and scriptwriter
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1951: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
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1952: Jenny Agutter, English actress
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1952: Sky Gilbert, Canadian drag queen performer, actor, and author
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1952: A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
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1954: Michael Badalucco, American actor
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1954: Sandra Cisneros, American author
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1954: James Hilton, English author (b. 1900)
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1955: David Breashears, American mountaineer
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1955: Ed Kuepper, German-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Saints, Laughing Clowns, and The Apartments)
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1955: Rory Markas, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
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1955: Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
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1956: Blanche Baker, American actress
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1956: Guy Babylon, American keyboardist (d. 2009)
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1956: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritanian general and politician, President of Mauritania
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1956: Ramón Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist (b. 1906)
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1957: Anna Vissi, Cypriot singer-songwriter and actress (Epikouri)
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1957: Billy Bragg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1957: Joyce Hyser, American actress
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1957: Mike Watt, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Banyan, Minutemen, Dos, The Stooges, and Firehose)
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1957: Stephen Bicknell, English organ builder (d. 2007)
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1958: James Thomson, American biologist
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1959: Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Polish politician, 12th Prime Minister of Poland
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1959: Trent Tucker, American basketball player
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1959: Unknown attackers murder the Walker family in Osprey, Florida.
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1960: Kim Ki-duk, South Korean director
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1960: Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian author
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1960: The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
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1961: Freddie Spencer, American twice Grand Prix Motorcycle World Champion (1983 & 1985)
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1961: Mike Keneally, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dethklok)
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1961: Mohammad Fouad, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor
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1961: Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
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1961: Moss Hart, American playwright (b. 1904)
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1963: Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo
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1963: Iqbal Theba, Pakistani actor
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1963: Joel Gretsch, American actor
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1964: Mark Coleman, American mixed martial artist
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1965: Jim Carr, American educator
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1965: Rich Gannon, American football player
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1965: Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor
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1966: Chris Robinson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Black Crowes, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Chris Robinson Brotherhood)
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1966: Matt Neal, English race car driver
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1968: Joe Cornish, English comedian and actor
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1968: Karl Wendlinger, Austrian race car driver
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1968: John Steinbeck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
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1968: The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
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1969: Bobby Phills, American basketball player (d. 2000)
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1970: Alister McRae, Scottish race car driver
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1970: Grant Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer
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1970: Jörg Schmidt, German footballer
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1970: Nicole de Boer, Canadian actress
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1971: Roger J. Beaujard, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Mortician)
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1971: Roy O. Disney, American bussnessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1893)
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1971: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.
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1972: Anders Odden, Norwegian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Cadaver, Magenta, Satyricon, Celtic Frost, Apoptygma Berzerk, and Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult)
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1973: Cory Stillman, Canadian ice hockey player
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1973: David Nedohin, Canadian curler
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1973: Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)
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1973: Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (b. 1904)
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1973: The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.
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1974: Die, Japanese guitarist (Dir En Grey)
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1974: André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
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1975: Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
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1975: Jaydy Michel, Mexican model
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1976: Adam Powell, Welsh game designer and businessman, co-founded Meteor Games
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1976: Aubrey Huff, American baseball player
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1976: Jang Hyuk, South Korean actor
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1976: Nenad Vučković, Croatian footballer
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1976: Ramon Stoppelenburg, Dutch author
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1976: Richard J. Daley, American politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902)
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1977: Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
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1978: Andrei Markov, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player
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1978: Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer
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1979: David DeJesus, American baseball player
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1979: George Lamb, English radio and television host
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1979: Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist
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1979: Ramón Rodríguez, Puerto Rican American actor
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1980: Anthony da Silva, French-Portuguese footballer
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1980: Ashley Cole, English footballer
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1980: Fitz Hall, English footballer
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1980: Israel Castro, Mexican footballer
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1980: Martín Demichelis, Argentine footballer
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1981: James Shields, American baseball player
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1981: Roy Williams, American football player
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1981: Royal Ivey, American basketball player
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1981: Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
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1982: David Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Axium and Midwest Kings)
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1982: David Wright, American baseball player
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1982: Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer
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1982: Keny Arkana, French rapper
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1982: Mohammad Asif, Pakistani cricketer
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1982: Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist (b. 1887)
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1983: Adrián Varela, Mexican singer
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1983: Chelsea Johnson, American pole vaulter
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1983: Darren Sammy, St. Lucian cricketer
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1983: Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
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1983: Lara Stone, Dutch model
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1983: Lucy Pinder, English model
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1984: David Tavaré, Spanish singer
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1984: Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
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1984: Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946)
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1984: The Summit Tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England in the Pennines.
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1986: Anoop Desai, American singer-songwriter
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1986: Benjamin Brierley, English-German rugby player
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1986: Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
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1987: Tariel Zintiridis, Greek martial artist
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1987: In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
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1988: Andrés Bottiglieri Italian–Argentine footballer
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1988: Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian businessman (b. 1908)
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1988: The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna, Austria.
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1989: Allan Hyde Danish actor
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1989: Kurt Böhme, German opera singer (b. 1908)
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1989: United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega. This is also the first combat use of purpose-designed stealth aircraft.
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1990: JoJo, American singer-songwriter and actress
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1991: Hunter Gomez, American actor
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1991: Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
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1991: Sam Rabin, English wrestler, sculptor and singer (b. 1903)
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1991: Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
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1991: A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
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1992: Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
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1994: Dean Rusk, American diplomat, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
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1995: American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.
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1995: NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
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1996: Carl Sagan, American astronomer and author (b. 1934)
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1996: NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
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1997: Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
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1997: Denise Levertov, English-American poet (b. 1923)
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1997: Jūzō Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933)
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1998: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist , Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
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1998: C. P. Lyons, Canadian historian and author (b. 1915)
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1998: Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
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1999: Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
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1999: Riccardo Freda, Italian director (b. 1909)
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1999: Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
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2000: Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladeshi politician and philanthropist (b. 1920)
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2001: Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912)
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2001: Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)
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2002: Bernard King, Australian actor and chef (b. 1934)
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2004: A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.
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2005: Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian mountaineer
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2005: Aleksandër Moisiu University was founded in Durrës, Albania.
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2005: US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
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2006: Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929)
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2006: Piergiorgio Welby, Italian poet and activist (b. 1945)
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2006: Shi Yuejun, Chinese spree killer (b. 1970)
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2007: Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (b. 1990)
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2007: Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
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2007: The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
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2008: Adrian Mitchell, English poet (b. 1932)
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2009: Arnold Stang, American actor (b. 1918)
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2009: Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
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2009: Jack Hixon, English sports scout (b. 1921)
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2009: Mairoon Ali, Trinidadian actress (b. 1954)
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2010: Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (b. 1949)
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2010: James R. Mann, American lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
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2010: Steve Landesberg, American actor and comedian (b. 1936)
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2011: Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (b. 1926)
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2012: Albert Renaud, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
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2012: Dennis Stevens, English footballer (b. 1933)
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2012: Eagle Keys, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1923)
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2012: Jimmy McCracklin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1921)
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2012: Kamil Sönmez, Turkish singer and actor (b. 1947)
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2012: Larry L. King, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1929)
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2012: Leslie Claudius, Indian field hockey player (b. 1927)
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2012: Niall FitzGerald, Irish footballer (b. 1931)
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2012: Richard Crandall, American physicist and computer scientist (b. 1947)
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2012: Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929)
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2012: Stan Charlton, English football player and manager (b. 1929)
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2012: Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist (b. 1919)
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_: Abolition of Slavery Day, also known as Fête des Cafres (Réunion, French Guiana)
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_: Bo Aung Kyaw Day (Myanmar)
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_: Christian Feast Day:
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_: December 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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_: Dominic of Silos
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_: Earliest date for Winter solstice's eve (Northern Hemisphere), and its related observances:
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_: International Human Solidarity Day (International)
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_: Macau Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (Macau)
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_: O Clavis
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_: Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne
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_: Yaldā (Iran)
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