Monday, December 24, 2007

24:e December...

Vad skall vi fira idag ?

1777 – An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island , the largest coral atoll in the world.

1814 – The Treaty of Ghent was signed in Ghent, present-day Belgium, ending the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States.

1865 – Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded the Ku Klux Klan, which would later become a white supremacist group.

1888 - Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear during some sort of seizure.

1924 - Albania becomes a republic.

1946 - France's Fourth Republic founded.

1954 - Laos becomes independent.

1979 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country's Marxist government.

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