Mamta Bansal
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History of 12 December
1991 - At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, the first web server outside of Europe was installed.
1994 - The Brazilian Supreme...
History of 11 December
1990 - Ivana Trump was divorced from Donald Trump after 12 years of marriage.
1991 - Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic death sentence for blasphemy,...
History of 10 December
1990 - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved Norplant, a long-acting contraceptive implant.
1991 - The play Revival "The Crucible" opened.
1992 - Oregon Senator Bob Packwood...
History of 9 December
1991 - European Community leaders agreed to begin using a single currency in 1999.
1992 - Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.
1992...
History of 8 December
1991 - Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government to be dead. They forged a new alliance to be known as the...
History of 7 December
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Mississippi abortion law which, required women to get counseling and then wait 24 hours before terminating their pregnancies.
1993 - Six...
History of 6 December
1992 - Germany's primary political parties agreed to tighten postwar asylum laws.
1992 - In India, thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque. The following...
History of 5 December
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin kept the power to appoint Cabinet ministers, defeating a constitutional amendment that would have put his team...
History of 4 December
1991 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after nearly seven years in captivity in Lebanon.
1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations.
1992...
History of 3 December
1992 - The UN Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led military mission to help starving Somalians.
1992 - The Greek tanker "Aegean Sea" ran aground at...
History of 2 December
1990 - Chancellor Hekmut Kohl's coalition won the first free all-German elections since 1932.
1990 - The Midwest section of the U.S. prepared for a massive earthquake...
History of 1 December
1990 - Iraq accepted a U.S. offer to talk about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis.
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel finally met...
