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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Today in History

1861
Lord Lyons, The British minister to America presents a formal complaint to secretary of state, William Seward, regarding the Trent affair.
1900
The Federal Party, which recognizes American sovereignty, is formed in the Philippines.
1919
Great Britain institutes a new constitution for India.
1921
Warren G. Harding frees Socialist Eugene Debs and 23 other political prisoners.
1933
Pope Pius XI condemns the Nazi sterilization program.
1937
London warns Rome to stop anti-British propaganda in Palestine.
1939
The first Canadian troops arrive in Britain.
1940
Chiang Kai-shek dissolves all Communist associations in China.
1941
Despite throwing back an earlier Japanese amphibious assault, the U.S. Marines and Navy defenders on Wake Island capitulate to a second Japanese invasion.
1944
General Dwight D. Eisenhower confirms the death sentence of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American shot for desertion since the Civil War.
1947
President Harry S Truman grants a pardon to 1,523 who had evaded the World War II draft.
1948
Japan’s Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo and six other collaborators are hanged for war crimes.
1950
General Walton H. Walker, the commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, is killed in a jeep accident. Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgeway is named his successor.
1967
U.S. Navy SEALs are ambushed during an operation southeast of Saigon.
1974
The B-1 bomber makes its first successful test flight.
1986
The Voyager completes the first nonstop flight around the globe on one load of fuel. The experimental aircraft, piloted Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after nine days and four minutes in the sky.
1990
In a referendum on Slovenia’s independence from Yugoslovia, 88.5% vote in favor of independence.
2002
An Iraqi MiG-25 shoots down a US MQ-1 Predator drone.

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