| 1512 |
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The laws of Burgos give New World natives legal protection against abuse and authorize Negro slavery. |
| 1831 |
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HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, departs from Plymouth. It will eventually visit the Galapagos Islands where Darwin will form his theories on evolution. |
| 1862 |
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Union General William Rosecrans’ army begins moving slowly toward Murfreesboro. |
| 1913 |
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Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago. |
| 1915 |
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In Ohio, iron and steel workers go on strike for an eight-hour day and higher wages. |
| 1932 |
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Radio City Music Hall opens. |
| 1933 |
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Josef Stalin calls tensions with Japan a grave danger. |
| 1939 |
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A series of vicious earthquakes take 11,000 lives in Turkey. |
| 1941 |
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Japanese bombers attack Manila, despite its claim as an open city. |
| 1944 |
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General George S. Patton’s Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium. |
| 1945 |
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The International Monetary Fund and the Bank for Reconstruction and Development are created. |
| 1947 |
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The new Italian constitution is promulgated in Rome. |
| 1950 |
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The United States and Spain resume relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. |
| 1956 |
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Segregation on buses in Tallahassee, Florida is outlawed. |
| 1968 |
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The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel. |
| 1979 |
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President Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan is ousted and murdered in a coup backed by the Soviet Union, beginning a war that will last more than 10 years. |
| 1983 |
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President Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines. |
| 1984 |
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Four Polish officers are tried for the slaying of Reverend Jerzy Popieluszko. |
| Born on December 27 |
| 1571 |
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Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician. |
| 1822 |
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Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist. |
| 1829 |
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Hinton Helper, southern abolitionist who wrote The Impending Crisis. |
| 1901 |
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Marlene Dietrich, German-born singer and actress. |
| 1943 |
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Cokie Roberts, American broadcast journalist. |
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