Mamta Bansal
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History of 25 December
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone...
History of 24 December
1990 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married.
1992 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the...
History of 23 December
1990 - Elections in Yugoslavia ended, leaving four of its six republics with non-Communist governments.
1995 - A fire in Dabwali, India, killed 540 people,...
History of 22 December
1990 - Lech Walesa was sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president.
1991 - The body of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, an American...
History of 21 December
1991 - Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1995 - The city of Bethlehem passed...
History of 20 December
1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN.
1991 - Ante Markovic resigned as federal Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
1991 - Oliver...
History of 18 December
1996 - Despite a U.N. truce, factional fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, broke out in which at least 300 fighters and civilians...
History of 17 December
1992 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari signed the North American Free Trade...
History of 16 December
1990 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a leftist priest, was elected president in Haiti's first democratic elections.
1991 - The U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution...
History of 15 December
1992 - IBM announced it would eliminate 25-thousand employees in the coming year.
1992 - Bettino Craxi, the leader of Italy's Socialist Party, was informed...
History of 14 December
1990 - After 30 years in exile, ANC president Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa.
1990 - After 30 years in exile, ANC president Oliver...
History of 13 December
1991 - Five Central Asian republics of the Soviet Union agreed to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States.
1991 - North Korea and South...
