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| Tuesday,
December
21,
2004 |
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AP Highlight in History:
On Dec. 21, 1988, a bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
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| AP Photo/Martin Cleaver |
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| On this date in: |
| 1620 | Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass. |
| 1898 | Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium. |
| 1913 | The first crossword puzzle was published, in the New York World. |
| 1945 | Gen. George S. Patton died at age 60 in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries suffered in a car accident. |
| 1948 | The state of Eire (formerly the Irish Free State) declared its independence. |
| 1958 | Charles de Gaulle was elected the first president of France's Fifth Republic. |
| 1968 | Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. |
| 1970 | Elvis Presley met with President Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office to discuss fighting drugs.
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| 1971 | The U.N. Security Council chose Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as secretary-general. |
| 1978 | Police in Des Plaines, Ill., arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of murdering. |
| 1991 | Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
| 1995 | The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control.
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| AP Photo/Nati Harnik |
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| 1996 | After two years of denials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted violating House ethics rules. |
| 2000 | President-elect George W. Bush resigned as governor of Texas; Lt. Gov. Rick Perry was sworn in to replace him. |
| 2002 | President George W. Bush received a smallpox vaccination, fulfilling a promise he'd made when he ordered inoculations for about a-half million U.S. troops. |
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| Today's Birthdays: |
| Tennis hall-of-famer Chris Evert turns 50 years old today. |
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| AP Photo/Chris Pizzello |
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| Kurt Waldheim | Former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president | 86 |
| Paul Winchell | Ventriloquist | 82 |
| Freddie Hart | Country singer | 78 |
| Joe Paterno | College football coach | 78 |
| Ed Nelson | Actor | 76 |
| Phil Donahue | Talk show host | 69 |
| John Avildsen | Director | 69 |
| Jane Fonda | Actress | 67 |
| Larry Bryggman | Actor | 66 |
| Carla Thomas | Singer | 62 |
| Albert Lee | Musician | 61 |
| Michael Tilson Thomas | Conductor | 60 |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Actor | 56 |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg | Movie producer | 54 |
| Betty Wright | Singer | 51 |
| Jane Kaczmarek | Actress (''Malcolm in the Middle'') | 49 |
| Lee Roy Parnell | Country singer | 48 |
| Jim Rose | Entertainer (The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow) | 48 |
| Ray Romano | Actor (''Everybody Loves Raymond'') | 47 |
| Christy Forester | Country singer (The Forester Sisters) | 42 |
| Andy Dick | Actor-comedian | 39 |
| Gabrielle Glaser | Rock musician (Luscious Jackson) | 39 |
| Karri Turner | Actress (''JAG'') | 38 |
| Khrystyne Haje | Actress | 36 |
| Brad Warren | Country singer (The Warren Brothers | 36 |
| Julie Delpy | Actress | 35 |
| Brett Scallions | Rock musician (Fuel) | 33 |
| Karrie Webb | Golfer | 30 |
| Actor Kiefer Sutherland turns 38 years old today. |
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| AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill |
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