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On This Day In History:
1854 Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, ''The Charge of the Light Brigade,'' was published in England.
1907 Christmas seals went on sale for the first time, at the Wilmington, Del., post office. The proceeds went to fight tuberculosis.
1940 British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II.
1941 China declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy.
1958 Robert H.W. Welch Jr. and 11 other men met in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society.
1975 President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loan authorization to prevent New York City from having to default.
1990 Solidarity founder Lech Walesa won Poland's presidential runoff by a landslide.
On Dec. 9, 1992, Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.
1993 The Air Force destroyed the first of 500 Minuteman II missile silos marked for elimination under an arms control treaty.
1995 Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., was chosen to head the NAACP.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a temporary halt in the Florida presidential vote count.
2000 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced he would resign and call a special election.
2002 United Airlines filed the biggest bankruptcy in aviation history after losing $4 billion in the previous two years.
2002 President George W. Bush tapped railroad executive John W. Snow to be his new Treasury secretary, three days after firing Paul O'Neill.
2003 The owners of a Rhode Island nightclub and the tour manager for the rock band Great White were indicted on charges related to a fire the previous February that killed 100 people.
2003 Former Sen. Paul Simon died in Springfield, Ill., at age 75.
2004 Canada's Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was constitutional.
Birthdays...
Actress Felicity Huffman (''Desperate Housewives,'' ''Sports Night'')
turns 43 years old today
89 Kirk Douglas
Actor
77 Dick Van Patten
Actor (''Eight Is Enough'')
67 Deacon Jones
Football hall-of-famer
64 Beau Bridges
Actor
63 Dick Butkus
Football hall-of-famer
53 Michael Dorn
Actor ("worf" on Star Trek TNG)
48 Donny Osmond
Singer-game show host
47 Nick Seymour
Rock musician (Crowded House)
27 Jesse Metcalfe
Actor (''Desperate Housewives'')
Have a great Friday and an awesome weekend everyone :D
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