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Shimla, Dec. 27 Keekli Bureau 2015 American painter, sculptor, and printmaker Ellsworth Kelly—who was a leading exponent of the hard-edge style, in which abstract contours are sharply and precisely defined—died in Spencertown, New...

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Shimla, Dec. 27 Keekli Bureau   Today Boxing Day Boxing Day is celebrated as a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. 2006 American politician Gerald R. Ford—who was the 38th...

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Shimla, Dec. 25 2006 American singer and songwriter James Brown, known as “the Godfather of Soul,” died at the age of 73.Test your knowledge of music 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned the presidency of the Soviet...

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Shimla, Dec. 24 2008 English playwright Harold Pinter, who achieved international renown—and was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature—as one of the most complex and challenging post-World War II dramatists, died at...

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Shimla, Dec. 23 Keekli Bureau 2013 Russian weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov—who invented the AK-47 (automatic Kalashnikov Model 1947), an assault rifle that became one of the most successful and ubiquitous firearms of the...

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Shimla, Dec. 22 Keekli Bureau 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy regarding the service of homosexuals in the military; it took effect the following...

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Shimla, Dec. 21 2012 The music video for South Korean singer Psy's humorous pop song Gangnam Style became the first video on YouTube to garner one billion views. 1988 Pan Am flight 103 exploded over...

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Shimla, Dec. 19 Keekli Bureau 2012 Park Geun-Hye became the first female to be elected president of South Korea; she was sworn into office the following year; however, she also became the country's...

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Shimla, Dec. 18 Keekli Bureau 2019 President Donald Trump became the third U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives, which charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. 2011 Czech...

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Shimla, Dec. 17 Keekli Bureau 2014 The United States and Cuba reestablished diplomatic relations that had been in abeyance for more than 50 years. 2011 North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il died; he was succeeded...

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Shimla, Dec. 16, Keekli Bureau 2014 Members of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Pakistani branch of the Taliban, attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 150 people, at least 134 of whom were children. 2009 Avatar, a science-fiction...

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Shimla, Dec.15 Keekli Bureau 2011 The Iraq War officially ended as the United States formally declared that its mission in the country was over. 2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened in Pisa, Italy, after...