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1861--The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War.

1867--The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver.

1872--P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana.

1900--The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger's pleas for aid in South Africa against the British.

1908--A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13.

1917--The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops.

1940--The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt.

1941--Franklin D. Roosevelt tells Americans to plan for a long war.

1948--The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan.

1949--The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem.

1950--President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China.

1950--Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II.

1955--Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title.

1960--The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war.

1990--Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland.

1992--U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country.

2008--Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested on federal charges, including an attempt to sell the US Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.


Born on December 9

1918--Kirk Douglas, American actor (Spartacus).

1922--Redd Foxx (John Sanford), comedian, actor; best known for his starring role in the TV series Sanford and Son.

1928--Dick Van Patten, actor; best known for his role on the TV series Eight is Enough.

1942--Dick Butkus, pro football player; inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1979.






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