Posted on 12/21/2001 8:01:20 AM PST by GeekDejure
--1582 -- Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar . . . tomorrow is January 1st, 1583.
--1620 -- 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.
--1866 -- Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre.
--1898 -- Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discover radium.
--1942 -- US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal.
--1968 -- Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell & Bill Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage.
--1976 -- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
--1979 -- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR.
--1989 -- US invades Panama and ousts General Noriega.
--1998 -- Oval-shaped UFO with orange, red, and yellow lights sighted for an hour over Kulgera, Australia.
I collect them.
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