Today in History
TODAY is December 15, the 350th day of 2008. There are 16 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
* 1640 - The Duke of Braganca is crowned John IV, the first king of Portugal after 60 years of Spanish rule.
* 1806 - Napoleon Bonaparte enters Warsaw, Poland.
* 1939 - The motion picture Gone With the Wind premieres in Atlanta, in the United States.
* 1944 - The plane carrying American band leader Glenn Miller, a US Army Major, disappears over the English Channel, probably the victim of bombs jettisoned from British bombers returning from an unsuccessful raid.
* 1961 - Former Nazi Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to …
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Publication information:
Article title: Today in History.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia).
Publication date: December 15, 2008.
Page number: 9.
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