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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 16, 2011 22:09:38 GMT
Sir. Arthur C. Clarke was born on this day in 1917.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 16, 2011 22:32:10 GMT
On this day... In a widely reported incident, 12,000 Japanese children reported various symptoms after watching the TV show Pokémon. In an investigation published in the February 2001 Southern Medical Journal, Ben Radford and Robert Bartholomew showed that it was more likely a case of mass hysteria provoked by early media reports.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 17, 2011 8:45:41 GMT
The U.S Air Force's 'Project Blue Book' to study the UFO phenomenon, was ordered shut down on this day in 1969.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 18, 2011 8:02:42 GMT
Piltdown Man, an alleged early human fossil later exposed as a hoax, was discovered on this day in 1912 by Charles Dawson.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 18, 2011 8:06:19 GMT
Today in 1865 slavery was abolished in the United States with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution being ratified.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 18, 2011 8:09:20 GMT
Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder, on this day in 1969.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 19, 2011 14:49:59 GMT
1154 - Henry II became King of England.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 19, 2011 14:53:23 GMT
Chriss Angel (Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos) the magician and mentalist was born on this day in 1967.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 19, 2011 14:54:16 GMT
On December 19, 1968 a Federal Grand Jury indicted Filipino psychic surgeon Tony Agpaoa on fraud charges. He fled the US to avoid prosecution.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 19, 2011 14:55:36 GMT
After an Eastern Airlines L-1011 crashed into the Florida Everglades on December 19, 1972, rumors of ghosts from the flight appearing on other L-1011 planes occurred. The story was told in the 1976 book "The Ghost of Flight 401", which was also made into a TV movie.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 20, 2011 14:51:10 GMT
Paranormalist Uri Geller was born on this day in 1946.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 20, 2011 14:52:57 GMT
Minnesota housewife Marion Keech (a pseudonym) claimed she received messages of an impending apocalypse on December 20, 1954, and formed a cult around this idea. Leon Festinger infiltrated the cult to study the participants. The result was the theory of cognitive dissonance.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 20, 2011 14:53:58 GMT
Oliver Stone's film "JFK", which dramatized many conspiracy theories about John F. Kennedy's assassination, was released on December 20, 1991.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 21, 2011 20:47:33 GMT
December 21.
1846: Aneathestic was used for the first time in a British operation when Robert Liston performed an amputation of a leg at University College Hospital in London.
1880: An act passed by the House of Keys on the Isle of Man granted women the vote, but only if they were widows or spinsters with property rated annually at £4 or over 1988: Jumbo jet crashes onto Lockerbie. A Pan Am jumbo jet with 258 passengers on board crashed on to the town of Lockerbie near the Scottish borders. It was later discovered to be a terrorist attack.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 22, 2011 19:45:31 GMT
December 22.
1972: Survivors found 10 weeks after plane crash. The Chilean Air force found 14 survivors from a plane that crashed in the Argentine Andes over two months earlier.
1978 - Kenney Jones, of Faces, becomes the drummer for the Who. He replace Keith Moon who had died a couple of months earlier.
1989: Brandenburg Gate re-opens. Berlin's most famous landmark the Brandenburg Gate re-opened for the first time in almost three decades.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 23, 2011 14:37:41 GMT
December 23.
1888 - Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation began daily news broadcasts.
1965 - A 70-mph speed limit was introduced in Britain.
1995 - The bodies of 16 members of the Solar Temple religious sect were found in a clearing near Grenoble, France. 14 were presumed shot by two people who then committed suicide.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 24, 2011 14:59:24 GMT
December 24.
1968: First astronauts orbit Moon. The Apollo 8 spacecraft took its crew of three astronauts safely into orbit around the Moon, the first manned space mission to achieve the feat.
1974: 'Drowned' Stonehouse found alive. Former UK minister John Stonehouse was found living under a false name in Australia after apparently faking his own death.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 25, 2011 21:24:17 GMT
December 25.
1952: Queen makes first Christmas speech. Millions of British and Commonwealth citizens listened to Queen Elizabeth's first Christmas broadcast of her reign.
1977: Silent film legend Chaplin dies. Charles "Charlie" Spencer Chaplin, the comic genius of silent films, died aged 88.
2003: Mars space probe disappears. Scientists failed to make contact with the British-built Mars probe, Beagle 2, which should have landed on the planet today.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 26, 2011 11:41:50 GMT
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 26, 2011 20:30:11 GMT
December 26.
1620 - The Pilgrim Fathers landed at New Plymouth, MA, to found Plymouth Colony, with John Carver as Governor.
1997 - The movie "Spice World" was released in the United Kingdom.... and the less said about that the better.
2004: Thousands die in Asian tsunami. Massive sea surges triggered by an earthquake under the Indian Ocean killed over 10,000 people in southern Asia, with many more feared dead.
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