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Xmas Eve

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 12/24/2017 - 8:00am

World History this day

1777 -- Captain Cook "discovered" Kiritimati roughly 240 years after Hernando de Grijalva did. It wasn't nuked until the 1950s
1914 -- The "Christmas truce" began
1941 -- Benghazi was conquered by British troops
1943 -- Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander for Normandy
1951 -- Libya became independent