Today in History....December 14

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1927 - My Mom was born! Born and raised in Minnesota, she had the wonderful experience of having 4 boys averaging 6'4" and uh uh, uhm 235 lbs, and 2 daughters, the oldest being a little thing of 5'2" and 100 lbs. The oldest son was your typical do nothing wrong, good son, not really sure if he's ever got on the wrong side of her, or anybody, but the remaining 3 boys took care of the grief that mothers usually go through. I, of course, was the nicest. ;-) Happy Birthday Mom, we love you!

1918 President Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office
1921, United States, Britain, France and Japan sign Washington Treaty to respect each others' rights over insular possessions in Pacific

1937, Japanese troops take Nanking in China and proceed to massacre an estimated 300,000 Chinese civilians

1944, during World War II, the U.S. cruiser Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack that claimed more than 130 lives

1978, the Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, which went into circulation in July 1979

1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.)

2001,


The Pentagon publicly released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his "most optimistic" expectations

Five suspected terrorists, practitioners of that "religion of peace", killed nine people in an attack on India's parliament before being killed themselves

President Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia
2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near his hometown of Tikrit

2005,


Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams was executed in California for killing four people in robberies

Iraqis living abroad began voting in the country's parliamentary elections