1732
\nBenjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard’s Almanac.<\/p>\n
1776
\nThomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.”<\/p>\n
1843
\nCharles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol.”<\/p>\n
1946
\nWar broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.<\/p>\n
1972
\nApollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.<\/p>\n
1984
\nBritain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.<\/p>\n
1998
\nPresident Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
2003
\nMuammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n
Richard Leakey
\n1944\u2013, Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and government official.<\/p>\n
Ford Frick<\/p>\n
sportswriter and radio announcer (1894)<\/p>\n
Sir Ralph Richardson<\/p>\n
actor (1902)<\/p>\n
Leonid Brezhnev<\/p>\n
political leader (1906)<\/p>\n
Jean Genet<\/p>\n
playwright (1910)<\/p>\n
Edith Piaf<\/p>\n
cabaret singer (1915)<\/p>\n
Doug Harvey<\/p>\n
hockey player (1924)<\/p>\n
Cicely Tyson<\/p>\n
actress (1933)<\/p>\n
Alberto Tomba<\/p>\n
alpine skier (1966)<\/p>\n
Alyssa Milano<\/p>\n
actor (1972)<\/p>\n
Jake Gyllenhaal<\/p>\n
actor (1980)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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