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| Monday,
December
27,
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AP Highlight in History:
On Dec. 27, 1831, British naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific Ocean aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped formed the basis of his theories on evolution.
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| On this date in: |
| 1822 | Scientist Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France. |
| 1900 | Prohibitionist Carry Nation carried out her first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kan. |
| 1927 | ''Show Boat,'' with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. |
| 1932 | Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.
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| AP Photo/Ed Betz |
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| 1945 | The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28 nations. |
| 1947 | The children's TV program ''Howdy Doody'' debuted on NBC. |
| 1949 | Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule. |
| 1970 | ''Hello, Dolly!'' closed on Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances. |
| 1979 | Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. Babrak Karmal succeeded President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed.
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![Audio Link]() | AP correspondent Barry Schlacter |
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| 1985 | Naturalist Dian Fossey, who had studied gorillas in the wild, was found hacked to death at a research station in Rwanda. |
| 2002 | North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said it would restart a laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. |
| 2002 | A suicide truck-bomb attack destroyed the headquarters of Chechnya's Moscow-backed government, killing 72 people. |
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| Today's Birthdays: |
| Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer turns 25 years old today. |
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| AP Photo/Al Behrman |
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| James A. McClure | Former Republican U.S. senator from Idaho | 80 |
| Scotty Moore | Rock musician | 73 |
| John Amos | Actor | 63 |
| Cokie Roberts | Broadcast journalist | 61 |
| Tracy Nelson | Singer | 60 |
| Gerard Depardieu | Actor | 56 |
| T.S. Monk | Jazz drummer-vocalist | 55 |
| David Knopfler | Rock musician (Dire Straits) | 52 |
| Arthur Kent | Broadcast journalist | 51 |
| Karen Hughes | Former White House counselor | 48 |
| Maryam D'Abo | Actress | 44 |
| Jeff Bryant | Country musician | 42 |
| Eva LaRue | Actress (''All My Children'') | 38 |
| Matt Slocum | Musician (Sixpence None The Richer) | 32 |
| Wilson Cruz | Actor | 31 |
| Olu | Singer | 31 |
| Deuce McAllister | Football player | 26 |
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