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On Dec 4 Hanukkah begins at sundown
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On Dec 4 Hanukkah begins at sundown ...and we lit the first light and exchanged presents. It is also the eve of Santa Klaus Day - the anniversity day of St. Nicklaus's birth. 1947 : A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway http://history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=52283 |
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On Dec 6:
1884 - Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument, placing the 3300-pound marble capstone atop it. |
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1987 : Protests against Soviet treatment of Jews take place in
Washington and Moscow http://history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=2506 |
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On Dec 7:
1941 - Japanese forces attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and other British and American territories and possessions in the Pacific. 1944 - The U.S. formally announced that all six Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor were sunk. |
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On Dec 7 1787
Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. |
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1916 : David Lloyd George becomes prime minister of Britain
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On Dec 10:
1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. |
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