Today in History
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1966 Saturn's Moon, Epimetheus, discovered
One of Saturn's 150 natural satellites or moons, Epimetheus shares its orbit with another moon, Janu
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1958 World's first communication satellite launched
A product of a highly secretive project, SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) w
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1912 Piltdown Man Hoax
The announcement by British archeologist Charles Dawson at a conference of the Geological Society of
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1892 The Nutcracker makes it debut in St. Petersburg, Russia
The two-part ballet was inspired by German author Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann's novella The Nutcr
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1865 US abolishes slavery
The US secretary of state proclaimed the adoption of the 13th Amendment, officially bringing it into
Births On This Day,
December, 18
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1980 Christina Aguilera
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress
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1964 Stone Cold Steve Austin
American wrestler, actor, producer
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1963 Brad Pitt
American actor, producer
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1946 Steven Spielberg
American director
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1878 Joseph Stalin
Soviet marshal, politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union
Deaths On This Day,
December, 18
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2011 Václav Havel
Czech politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic
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2008 Mark Felt
American agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2006 Joseph Barbera
American animator, director, producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera
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1980 Alexei Kosygin
Soviet politician
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1892 Richard Owen
English biologist
