On this day: December 31

December 31 Jean-Bédel Bokassa 1225 – Lý Chiêu Hoàng, the only empress regnant in the history of Vietnam, married Trần Thái Tông, making him the first emperor of the Trần Dynasty at age seven. 1759 – Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum to the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin and began brewing Guinness. 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began in an engagement where both...

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Steve Bruce (born 1960) is an English football manager, currently for Hull City, and a former player. A defender, he began his professional career at Gillingham in 1979, and made over 200 appearances before transferring to Norwich City five years later. From 1987 to 1996, he played for Manchester United, winning the Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup and European Cup Winner's Cup. He was the first English player of the twentieth century...

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December 30 Wikipedia featured article

The Rashtrakuta dynasty ruled large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the sixth and tenth centuries. Early Rashtrakuta inscriptions show their clans ruling from modern-day Manpur in Madhya Pradesh, Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh, and Elichpur in Maharashtra. This third clan overthrew Kirtivarman II and built an empire as the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta, rising to power in South India in 753. At the same time the Pala dynasty of Bengal (in eastern...

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On this day: December 30

December 30: Rizal Day in the Philippines (1896) Ferdinand Marcos 1702 – Carolina colonial governor James Moore abandoned the siege against the Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, and retreated to Charles Town in disgrace. 1853 – The United States purchased approximately 29,600 sq mi (77,000 km2) of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande from Mexico for $10 million. 1906 – The All-India Muslim...

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On this day: December 29

December 29: Independence Day in Mongolia (1911) Muhammad Iqbal 1170 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England. 1890 – The United States Army killed over 150 members of the Great Sioux Nation at the Wounded Knee Massacre. 1930 – Muhammad Iqbal (pictured) introduced the two-nation theory outlining a vision for the creation of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces...

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HMS Warrior was the name ship of a class of two 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigates built for the Royal Navy in 1859–61. The sister ships Warrior and HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. After a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863, Warrior had an active career with the Channel...

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On this day: December 28

December 28: Day of the Holy Innocents (Western Christianity) Westminster Abbey 1065 – Westminster Abbey in London, built by Edward the Confessor between 1045 and 1050, was consecrated. 1612 – Galileo became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. 1832 – John C. Calhoun became the first Vice President of the United States to resign. 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake and subsequent...

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Kingdom Hearts II is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix in 2005 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The game is a sequel to the 2002 Disney Interactive and Square collaboration, Kingdom Hearts, and to Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. In this game, the protagonist Sora returns to search for his lost friends, while Organization XIII from Chain of Memories reappears to impede his progress. All three games feature a large cast of characters from Disney films and Final Fantasy games. The game was well-received,...

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December 27 Wikipedia featured article

Main Street, downtown Kent Kent is the largest city in Portage County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area and the larger Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area. The population was 28,904 in the 2010 Census and slightly higher in the 2014 estimate. Part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, it was settled in 1805 as a mill town along the Cuyahoga River and later named Franklin Mills. In the...

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On this day: December 27

December 27 Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1657 – Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. 1845 – John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny". 1918 – A public speech by famed Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski...

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On this day: December 26

December 26: Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries; St. Stephen's Day (Western Christianity); Kwanzaa begins in Canada and the United States Pierre and Marie Curie 1606 – The first recorded performance of the play King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the legendary King Lear of the Britons, was held. 1825 – Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his...

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Andrew Johnston (born 1994) is a British singer who rose to fame when he appeared as a boy soprano on the second series of the British television talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2008. He sang "Pie Jesu" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem in the finals. Although he did not win, he received a contract to record on the SyCo Music label owned by the Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell. Johnston's debut album, One Voice, was released in September...

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December 25 Wikipedia featured article

Jefferson High School, Los Angeles "Sisters at Heart" is the 13th episode of the seventh season of Bewitched, an American Broadcasting Company fantasy television sitcom. This Christmas episode aired on December 24, 1970, and again the following December. In one storyline, Darrin Stephens (Dick Sargent) fails to land a million-dollar advertising account after a toy company owner mistakes a black woman for Darrin's wife. The man changes his attitude...

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On this day: December 25

December 25: Christmas (Gregorian calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day (Pakistan) William the Conqueror and his brothers 1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror (pictured center in Bayeux Tapestry) was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, although he still faced rebellions over the following years and was not secure on his throne until after 1072. 1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization...

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On this day: December 24

December 24: Christmas Eve (Gregorian calendar) Christmas truce 1294 – Boniface VIII began his papacy, replacing St. Celestine V, who had declared that it was permissible for a Pope to resign, and then promptly did so. 1865 – Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded the Ku Klux Klan, which would later become a white supremacist group. 1914 – British and German soldiers interrupted the First World War to celebrate Christmas,...

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William Wurtenburg (1863–1957) was an American college football player and coach. Born to German parents and raised in western New York, Wurtenburg played for Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. The 1887 Yale squad outscored their opponents 515–12, and the 1888 squad, which he quarterbacked, held all opponents scoreless; both teams were later recognized as national champions. Wurtenburg received his medical degree from Yale's Sheffield...

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December 23 Wikipedia featured article

Tropical Storm Edouard was the first of eight named storms to form in September 2002, the most such storms for any month in the Atlantic at the time. The fifth tropical storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season, Edouard developed into a tropical cyclone on September 1 from an area of convection associated with a cold front east of Florida. Under weak steering currents, Edouard drifted to the north and executed a clockwise loop to the west. Despite...

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On this day: December 23

December 23: The Emperor's Birthday in Japan; Festivus Vincent van Gogh 962 – Byzantine–Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo. 1823 – A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, was first published anonymously. Authorship was later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore. 1888 – During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (pictured) stalked his...

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On this day: December 22

December 22: December solstice (04:48 UTC, 2015); Yule, Mother's Day in Indonesia Anthony McAuliffe 1769 – Having been soundly defeated in battle, the Qing dynasty agreed to terms of truce, ending the Sino-Burmese War. 1807 – In an effort to avoid engaging in the Napoleonic Wars, the United States Congress passed the Embargo Act, forbidding American ships from engaging in trade with foreign nations. 1944 – World War II: US Army General Anthony...

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December 22 Wikipedia featured article

Miniopterus aelleni is a bat in the genus Miniopterus found in the Comoro Islands and Madagascar. It is a small, brown bat, with a forearm length of 35 to 41 mm (1.4 to 1.6 in). The long tragus (a projection in the outer ear) has a broad base and a blunt or rounded tip. The uropatagium (tail membrane) is sparsely haired. The palate is flat and there are distinct diastemata (gaps) between the upper canines and premolars. Populations of this species were previously included in Miniopterus manavi, but recent molecular studies revealed that...

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December 21 Wikipedia featured article

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) was a British politician and writer who twice served as prime minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli entered the House of Commons in 1837. In 1846, after clashing with the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, Disraeli became a major figure in the party, though many in it did not favour him. He served as Chancellor of the...

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On this day: December 21

December 21 Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall 1620 – The Mayflower (pictured) Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, establishing the Plymouth Colony. 1879 – A Doll's House, a controversial play by Henrik Ibsen that challenged 19th-century marriage norms, premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1910 – In the second worst mining accident in England, an underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery...

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On this day: December 20

December 20 Cardiff City Hall 1860 – South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War. 1955 – Cardiff (Cardiff City Hall pictured) was proclaimed as the capital of Wales. 1957 – The first flight of the Boeing 707, the first commercially successful jet airliner, took place. 1995 – As per the Dayton Agreement...

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