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2004-12-12

On this day in History - Dec. 12

1787 - Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1821- Gustave Flaubert born in Rouen , France, novelist (d. 1880)
1836 - Edvard Munch born painter (d. 1863)
1870- Joseph H. Rainey, of South Carolina, became the first black lawmaker sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives
1877 - Morre José de Alencar, romancista e teatrólogo, autor de "O Guarani".
1913 -The Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after having been stolen two years earlier (August 1911) from the Louvre.
1915 - Frank Sinatra , wad born , American singer, actor. (d. 1998)
1924 -Spanish troops are pushed out of Morocco by Abd el Krim.
1936 - O líder chinês Chiang Kai-Shek declara guerra ao Japão
1937 - Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay" on China’s Yangtze River. (Japan apologized, and paid $2.2 million in reparations.)
1940 - Dionne Warwick was born, singer
1947 - The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American Federation of Labor
1963 - Kenya achieves independence from Britain. Jomo Kenyatta becomes prime minister.
1963 - Morre o cineasta japonês Yasujiro Ozu.
1963 - Kenya gained its independence from Britain.
1964 - Kenya declared a republic.
1970 - Jennifer Connelly, was born actress
1975 - Sara Jane Moore pleaded guilty to a charge of trying to kill President Ford in San Francisco the previous September.
1977 - Bridgett Hall was born , supermodel.
1985 - 248 American soldiers and eight crew members were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland.
1994 -The Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted former President Fernando Collor de Mello of the corruption charges that had forced him to resign in 1992
1998 - The House Judiciary Committee approved a fourth and final article of impeachment against President Clinton.
2000 -The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the presidential election recount in Florida.
2001 - Yasir Arafat closed the offices of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.1787
Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
2004 - FC Porto are World Champions in soccer (futebol, fútbol, football, fussball) in Yokohama, Japan, beatting Once Caldas on penalties decision (8-7) after a match null.


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