Today in history… here is what happened.
1936- Edward VIII abdicates
1997- Kyoto Protocol first adopted in Japan
2008- Billionaire conman Bernard Madoff arrested
2019- 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg named Time’s Person of the Year
1994- Russian forces enter Chechnya
1978- Millions stolen from JFK Airport in infamous ‘Lufthansa heist’
1946- UNICEF founded
1950- American diplomat Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
1964- Sam Cooke dies under suspicious circumstances in LA
1777- British delay Washington’s march to Valley Forge
1941- Germany declares war on the United States
1963- Frank Sinatra Jr. released by kidnappers
1915- Yuan Shih-kai accepts Chinese throne
1961- First U.S. helicopters arrive in South Vietnam
1969- Soviets declare nudity a sigh of “western decadence”
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