{"id":30097,"date":"2016-12-06T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=30097"},"modified":"2016-12-06T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:27:41","slug":"today-in-history-303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=30097","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today in History: Tuesday, December\u00a0 06, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Dec. 6, 1998, Hugo Chavez, who had staged a bloody coup attempt against the Venezuelan government six years earlier, was elected president.
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1790<\/td>\nCongress moved from New York City to Philadelphia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1907<\/td>\nThe worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as 362 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, W.Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1923<\/td>\nA presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/td>\nEverglades National Park in Florida was dedicated.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957<\/td>\nThe AFL-CIO expelled the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957<\/td>\nAmerica’s first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969<\/td>\nA free concert by the Rolling Stones at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, Calif., was marred by the deaths of four people, including a man who was stabbed by a Hell’s Angel.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1973<\/td>\nHouse minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to income tax evasion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nThousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque in India, setting off two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting that claimed at least 2,000 lives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nOrange County, Calif., filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nArmy became the first team to finish 0-13 in major college football history after a 34-6 loss to Navy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nAl-Qaida struck the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, with explosives and machine guns, killing nine people.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nThe bipartisan Iraq Study Group concluded that President George W. Bush’s war policies had failed in almost every regard, and said the situation in Iraq was “grave and deteriorating.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Director Judd Apatow (“The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up”) turns 49 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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James Naughton<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JoBeth Williams<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tom Hulce<\/td>\nActor (“Amadeus”)<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steven Wright<\/td>\nComedian<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Buck<\/td>\nRock musician (R.E.M.)<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew Cuomo<\/td>\nGovernor of New York<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Janine Turner<\/td>\nActress (“Northern Exposure”)<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Colleen Haskell<\/td>\nTV personality (“Survivor”)<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lindsay Price<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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