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November 27 - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.
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November 30 - Formation of British Caledonian Airways Ltd. (BCal).
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# December 1 - The Italian House of Representatives accepts the new divorce law.
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# December 1 - Ethiopia recognizes the People's Republic of China.
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# December 1 - The Basque ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián.
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December 1 - Luis EcheverrÃ*a becomes president of Mexico.
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December 2 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
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December 3 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
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December 3 - Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, a trial begins of 16 Basques terrorism suspects.
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December 4 - The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzco, due to strikes and demonstrations.
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December 4 - The U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea.
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December 5 - The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends.
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# December 7 - Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.
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December 7 - The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa due to its apartheid policies.
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December 7 - During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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December 12 - A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead.
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December 13 - The government of Poland announces increases in the price of food. Riots and looting lead to a bloody confrontation between the rioters and the government on December 15, and martial law December 17-22. December 23 the government will freeze the food prices for two years.
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December 15 - The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.
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December 15 - South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsized off Korean Strait, 308 killed.
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December 16 - The Ethiopian government declares a state of emergency in the county of Eritrea, due to the activities of the Eritrean Liberation Front.
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December 20 - General Secretary of the Polish Communist Party, Władysław Gomułka, resigns; Edward Gierek replaces him.
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December 20 - An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid.
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December 22 - The Libyan Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
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December 22 - Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
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December 23 - The Bolivian government releases Regis Debray.
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December 23 - The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world.
RIP victims
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December 25 - The ETA releases Eugen Beihl.
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December 27 - India's president declares new elections.
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# December 28 - Burgos Trial: Three Basques are sentenced to death (3 twice), others sentenced for 12-62 years, and 1 is released.
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# December 28 - The suspected killers of Pierre Laporte, Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
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# December 30 - In Viscaya, Spain, Basque county, 15,000 go on strike to protest the Burgos trial death sentences.
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December 30 - Francisco Franco commutes the death sentences of the Burgos Trial defendants to 30 years in prison.
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December 31 - Paul McCartney sues in Great Britain to dissolve the Beatles's legal partnership.
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Rhodesia is now todays Zimbabwe
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Wii Music is releasing in Japan on October 16th 2008
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for being an awesome nation for tech and such they're money sure does suck.
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Captain Rainbow / 28 August / 6800 yen
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Wii Remote Straps coming out in September
White, Pink, Blue, Green
300 yen each
Set of four for 1000 yen.
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Valkyrie Profile DS / 2 October / 5040 yen
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7k tonight woot salad for everyone.
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November 11th is the 315 day of the year
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things that happened on November 11th over the years are......
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308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
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1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
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# 1500 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
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1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony. (Old Style date; November 21 per New Style date.)
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# 1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
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1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
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1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
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1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
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1750 - The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
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# 1778 - Cherry Valley Massacre: an attack by Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
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1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
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# 1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
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1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
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1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
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1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
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1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
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1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
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1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
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1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
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1911 - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
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1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).
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RE" Extinction rating from= below average.
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it wasn't complete fail but I'd never own it.
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1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.
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# 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
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1919 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
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1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
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1924 - Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.
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1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
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1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
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1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.
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# 1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
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1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
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# 1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
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1942 - World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France.
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1960 - A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was crushed.
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1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
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1965 - In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
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1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
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# 1967 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
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1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
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1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
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# 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
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1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.
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# 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
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2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
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2001 - Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.
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2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
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2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
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2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
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Matt Garza was born on November 11th 1983
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22 till I have 600 over the past 24 hr's
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I am watching Weekend at Bernies.
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I wonder if anyone broke this combo
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what would you do by city life is what I dl'ed
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