{"id":24388,"date":"2015-12-11T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=24388"},"modified":"2015-12-11T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T15:16:19","slug":"today-in-history-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=24388","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today in History: Friday, December\u00a0 11, 2015<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Dec. 11, 1961, A U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon – the first direct American military support for South Vietnam’s battle against Communist guerrillas.
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1816<\/td>\nIndiana became the 19th state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1936<\/td>\nBritain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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1941<\/td>\nGermany and Italy declared war on the United States, which responded in kind.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946<\/td>\nUNICEF (the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) was established.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\nMan landed on the moon for the last time during the Apollo 17 mission.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nThe U.N. Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be its fifth secretary-general.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nRussian troops rolled into breakaway republic of Chechnya in a failed bid to restore Moscow’s control over the region.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nMore than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to take steps to control greenhouse gas emissions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nThe House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nShortstop Alex Rodriguez agreed to a $252 million 10-year deal with the Texas Rangers, the most lucrative sports contract in history at the time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nA congressional report found that intelligence agencies before Sept. 11, 2001, were poorly organized, poorly equipped and slow to pursue clues that might have prevented that day’s terrorist attacks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nBernard Madoff was arrested, accused of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving 150 years in prison.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nTiger Woods announced on his website that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf to try to save his marriage to Elin Nordegren. (The couple divorced in August 2010.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress-comedian Mo’Nique turns 48 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Rita Moreno<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tom Hayden<\/td>\nActivist<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Donna Mills<\/td>\nActress (“Knots Landing”)<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max Baucus<\/td>\nFormer U.S. senator, D-Mont.<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Kerry<\/td>\nSecretary of state<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lynda Day George<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brenda Lee<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teri Garr<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jermaine Jackson<\/td>\nSinger (The Jackson 5)<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nikki Sixx<\/td>\nRock musician (Motley Crue)<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gary Dourdan<\/td>\nActor (“CSI”)<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mos Def<\/td>\nRapper, actor<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hailee Steinfeld<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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