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* [[1952]] - '''[[Great Smog of 1952]]''': A "killer fog" descended on [[London]] ("[[Smog]]" for "smoke" and "fog" became a word). |
* [[1952]] - '''[[Great Smog of 1952]]''': A "killer fog" descended on [[London]] ("[[Smog]]" for "smoke" and "fog" became a word). |
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* [[1991]] - '''[[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am Airways]]''' ended operations. |
* [[1991]] - '''[[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am Airways]]''' ended operations. |
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[[Image:Rammohan.jpg|100px|Ram Mohan Roy]] |
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Revision as of 20:20, 4 December 2005
- 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus.
- 1674 - Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette (pictured) founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek; the mission later grew into Chicago, Illinois.
- 1791 - The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published.
- 1829 - The practice of sati was formally abolished in British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy against this Hindu funeral custom of self-immolation.
- 1977 - The President of the Central African Republic had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I in a lavish ceremony.
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