12-27-2004, 08:55 AM
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December 27th
1571 ~ Birthday of Johannes Kepler, astronomer.
1822 ~ Birthday of Louis Pasteur, Scientist.
1831 ~ Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
1904 ~ James Barrie's play Peter Pan premiers in London.
1943 ~ Birthday of Cokie Roberts, journalist.
1949 ~ Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted Indonesia sovereignty.
1978 ~ Spain became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
1985 ~ Naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
1985 ~ Palestinian guerrillas killed twenty people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
2002 ~ Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
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