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Today in History: Tuesday, December\u00a0 13, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Dec. 13, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France to attend the post-World War I peace conference at Versailles, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.
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1642<\/td>\nDutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1769<\/td>\nDartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1862<\/td>\nConfederate forces dealt Union troops a major defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nAuthorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1988<\/td>\nPLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United States refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nSouth African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk’s office in Cape Town.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nThe U.N. Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana to be the world body’s seventh secretary-general.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nRepublican George W. Bush claimed the presidency 36 days after Election Day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nThe Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his “most optimistic” expectations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nFive suspected Islamic militants killed nine people in an attack on India’s parliament before being killed themselves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nPresident George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nCardinal Bernard Law resigned as Boston archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nOusted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, near his hometown of Tikrit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2007<\/td>\nShareholders of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, approved a takeover by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nThe Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was released, implicating seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Country singer Taylor Swift turns 27 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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George P. Shultz<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of State<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dick Van Dyke<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n91<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lou Adler<\/td>\nMusic producer<\/td>\n86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Davidson<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ferguson Jenkins<\/td>\nBaseball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ted Nugent<\/td>\nRock musician<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wendie Malick<\/td>\nActress (“Just Shoot Me”)<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tom Vilsack<\/td>\nSecretary of agriculture<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ben Bernanke<\/td>\nFederal Reserve chairman<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steve Forbert<\/td>\nRock singer<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morris Day<\/td>\nR&B singer-actor (The Time)<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steve Buscemi<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Johnny Whitaker<\/td>\nActor (“Family Affair”)<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richard Dent<\/td>\nFootball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jamie Foxx<\/td>\nActor, singer<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sergei Fedorov<\/td>\nHockey player<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Kyson Lee<\/td>\nActor (“Heroes”)<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chelsea Hertford<\/td>\nActress (“Major Dad”)<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amy Lee<\/td>\nRock singer (Evanescence)<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actor Christopher Plummer turns 87 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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