| 536 |
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Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome. |
| 1861 |
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The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War. |
| 1863 |
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Major General John G. Foster replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio. |
| 1867 |
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The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver. |
| 1872 |
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P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana. |
| 1900 |
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The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger’s pleas for aid in South Africa against the British. |
| 1908 |
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A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13. |
| 1917 |
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The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops. |
| 1940 |
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The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt. |
| 1941 |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt tells Americans to plan for a long war. |
| 1948 |
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The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan. |
| 1949 |
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The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem. |
| 1950 |
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President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China. |
| 1950 |
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Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II. |
| 1955 |
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Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title. |
| 1960 |
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The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war. |
| 1990 |
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Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland. |
| 1992 |
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U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country. |
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Born on December 9 |
| 1608 |
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John Milton, British writer and poet (Paradise Lost). |
| 1809 |
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William Barret Travis, commander of the Texas troops at the battle of the Alamo. |
| 1848 |
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Joel Chandler Harris, writer, creator of the Uncle Remus tales. |
| 1899 |
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Jean de Brunhoff, illustrator and author, creator of the Babar series of books. |
| 1906 |
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Grace Hopper, mathematician and computer pioneer. |
| 1912 |
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Thomas P. "Tip" O’Neill, speaker of the House of Representatives. |
| 1918 |
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Kirk Douglas, American actor (Spartacus). |
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