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On Dec 21:
1620 - The Pilgrims of the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
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1941 : Churchill and Roosevelt discuss war and peace
http://history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6651 |
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1914 : The Christmas Truce
http://history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=5629 For a description of the football matches that day, see "On this Day" |
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December 26, 1820
Hoping to recover from bankruptcy with a bold scheme of colonization, Moses Austin meets with Spanish authorities in San Antonio to ask permission for 300 Anglo-American families to settle in Texas. |
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On Dec 26:
2004 – An undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia generated a series of devastating tsunamis that killed more than 225,000 people in eleven countries. |
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1965: Sea Gem oil rig collapses
Four men are dead and nine are still missing after Britain's first North Sea drilling rig capsizes. |
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On Dec 27:
1831 - British naturalist Charles Darwin set out from Plymouth, England, aboard the HMS Beagle, on a five-year surveying expedition of the southern Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. |
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1979: Tay Bridge rail disaster remembered
Passengers retrace a fatal journey on the 100th anniversary of a train plunging from the Tay Bridge into icy waters. |
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