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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1824 The House of Representatives convened to decide the presidential election because no candidate had received a majority in the Electoral College. John Quincy Adams was eventually chosen the winner over Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay.
1913 The first drive-in automobile service station opened, in Pittsburgh.
1919 Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament.
1934 Sergei M. Kirov, the head of the Communist Party in Leningrad, was assassinated as Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a massive purge of his real and perceived enemies.
1942 Nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States.
1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defied the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.
On Dec. 1, 1959, representatives of 12 countries, including the United States, signed a treaty in Washington setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity.
1965 An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland.
1969 The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1973 David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, died in Tel Aviv at age 87.
1991 Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 In Mineola, N.Y., Amy Fisher was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
1997 A 14-year-old student opened fire on a morning prayer group at a high school in West Paducah, Ky., killing three students and wounding five.
1999 An international team of scientists announced it had mapped virtually an entire human chromosome.
2000 Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.
2001 Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in back-to-back explosions at a downtown Jerusalem pedestrian mall, killing 11 bystanders.
2001 A baby girl was born to Japan's Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito; she was later named Aiko.
2004 Tom Brokaw signed off for the last time as principal anchor of the ''NBC Nightly News.''
Birthdays...
Writer-director Woody Allen turns 70 years old today.
71 Billy Paul
Singer
70 Lou Rawls
Singer
66 Lee Trevino
Golfer
65 Richard Pryor
Actor-comedian
61 Eric Bloom
Rock musician (Blue Oyster Cult)
61 John Densmore
Rock musician (The Doors)
60 Bette Midler
Actress-singer
54 Treat Williams
Actor
47 Charlene Tilton
Actress (''Dallas'')
45 Carol Alt
Model-actress
30 Sarah Masen
Singer
28 Brad Delson
Rock musician (Linkin Park)
17 Ashley Monique Clark
Actress
Have a good thursday everyone. Welcome to December.
And remember... "Everyone has a photographic memory
...some just don't have any film."
:D
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