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Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Today in History: Friday, December\u00a0 18, 2015<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Dec. 18, 1865, slavery ended in the United States as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect.
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1787<\/td>\nNew Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1886<\/td>\nBaseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb was born in Narrows, Ga.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1892<\/td>\nPeter Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker Suite” premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1915<\/td>\nPresident Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944<\/td>\nThe Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957<\/td>\nThe first nuclear facility in the United States to generate electricity, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, went online.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1958<\/td>\nThe world’s first communications satellite was launched by the United States aboard an Atlas rocket.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969<\/td>\nBritain’s Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\nThe United States began the heaviest bombing of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/td>\nIvan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for plotting Wall Street’s biggest insider-trading scandal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nA judge in Seattle sentenced confessed Green River killer Gary Ridgeway to 48 consecutive life terms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nA jury in Chesapeake, Va., convicted teenager Lee Boyd Malvo of two counts of murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings. (He was later sentenced to life in prison without parole.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nA U.N. court in Tanzania convicted former Rwandan army Col. Theoneste Bagosora of genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings of more than half a million people in a 100-day slaughter in 1994.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nReality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, parents of eight children, divorced.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actor Brad Pitt turns 52 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ramsey Clark<\/td>\nFormer U.S. attorney general<\/td>\n88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steven Spielberg<\/td>\nDirector, producer<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leonard Maltin<\/td>\nMovie critic<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elliot Easton<\/td>\nRock musician (The Cars)<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ray Liotta<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rachel Griffiths<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cowboy Troy<\/td>\nCountry singer, rapper (“Nashville Star”)<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DMX<\/td>\nRapper<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario<\/td>\nTennis Hall of Famer<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katie Holmes<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christina Aguilera<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Rock musician Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) turns 72 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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