And the next date in the calendar is....

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12/14/1503 - French astrologer Nostradamus was born

 

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12/15/1973 = American Psychiatric Association votes unanimously to remove Homosexuality from it's list of psychiatric disorders

 

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December 16, 1485 Birth of Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife & Queen of Henry VIII

 

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December 17, 1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France to Marie de 'Medici

 

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December 18, 1863 - Birth of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria

 

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19 December 1910 – Birth of Jean Genet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Genet

 

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12/20/1955 - Cardiff is proclaimed capital city of Wales

 

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December 21, 1118 - Birth of Thomas Beckett, aka St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas a' Beckett is born

 

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22 December 1135 – Stephen of Blois becomes King of England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_King_of_England

 

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December 23, 1688 - James II flees England to Paris after being deposed, being replaced by William III & Mary II, his daughter & son in law

 

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December 24, 1166 - King John, aka John Lackland is born to Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine

 

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December 25, 800 - Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor

 

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December 26, 1776 - Battle of Trenton - American Colonial troops beat a garrison of Hessian soldiers @ Trenton, NJ

 

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27 December 1901 – Birth of Marlene Dietrich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich

 

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One of my icons!! ^^^^^^

December 28, 1065 - Westminster Abbey consecrated

 

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29 December 1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket

 

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December 30, 1865 - Birth of Rudyard Kipling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipling

 

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31 December 1738 – Birth of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis

 

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January 1, 1745 - Birth of "Mad" Anthony Wayne, American Revolutionary soldier & statesman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Anthony_Wayne

 

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2 January 1861 – Death of King Frederick William IV of Prussia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_IV_of_Prussia