{"id":23321,"date":"2023-12-11T05:14:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23321"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:39:49","slug":"history-of-11-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-11-december\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 11 December"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1990 &#8211; Ivana Trump was divorced from Donald Trump after 12 years of marriage.<\/li>\r\n<li>1991 &#8211; Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic death sentence for blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in New York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of speech in the\u00a0U.S.).<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; Thousands of Russian troops, armored columns and jets entered Chechnya. The move by Moscow was an effort to restore control the breakaway republic.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; The world&#8217;s largest free trade zone was created when leaders of 34 Western Hemisphere nations signed a free-trade declaration known as &#8220;The Miami Process.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li>1996 &#8211; In Crystal City, VA, &#8220;The Art of the Toy&#8221; opened. The exhibit was at the Patent and Trademark Office Museum.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams became the first political ally of the IRA to meet a British leader in 76 years. He conferred with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; More than 270 Tutsi refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo were killed by Juto guerillas in Mudende, Rwanda.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth&#8217;s &#8220;greenhouse gases.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; Scientists announced that they had deciphered the entire genetic blueprint of a tiny worm.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; The\u00a0<em>Mars Climate Orbiter<\/em>\u00a0blasted off on a nine-month journey to the Red Planet. However, the probe disappeared in September of 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against\u00a0U.S. President Clinton.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; Mario Lemeiux, owner of Pittsburgh Penquins, announced that he would end his three-plus year retirement and become an active\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL)\u00a0player again. When Lemieux returned officially he became the first owner\/player in\u00a0NHL\u00a0history.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211;\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Attorney General Ashcroft announced the first federal indictment directly related to the terrorist attacks on the\u00a0United States\u00a0on September 11, 2001. Zacarias Moussaoui was charged with six conspiracy charges. Moussaoui was in custody at the time of the attacks.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in\u00a0Nebraska\u00a0for Bison ranches.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; It was announced that\u00a0U.S. President George W. Bush\u00a0would withdraw the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; Federal agents seized computers in 27 U.S. cities as part of &#8220;Operation Buccaneer.&#8221; The raids were used to gain evidence against an international software piracy ring.<\/li>\r\n<li>2009 &#8211; The game\u00a0Angry Birds\u00a0was released.<\/li>\r\n<li>2013 &#8211; Standard &amp; Poors announced that Facebook would join its S&amp;P 500 index &#8220;after the close of trading on December 20.&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2007\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Insurgency in the Maghreb:\u00a0Two car bombs explode\u00a0in\u00a0Algiers,\u00a0Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.<\/li>\r\n<li>2008\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bernard Madoff\u00a0is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50\u00a0billion\u00a0Ponzi scheme.<\/li>\r\n<li>2012\u00a0\u2013 At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in\u00a0bombings\u00a0in the\u00a0Alawite\u00a0village of\u00a0Aqrab,\u00a0Syria.<\/li>\r\n<li>2017\u00a0\u2013\u00a0New York City attempted bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the\u00a0New York City Subway, in the\u00a0Times Square\u201342nd Street\/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator.<\/li>\r\n<li>2019 &#8211; The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% voters vote for Bougainville&#8217;s independence.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jason Kennedy, American journalist<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Jeff McComsey, American author and illustrator<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Paul Medhurst, Australian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Javier Saviola, Argentinian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pablo P\u00e9rez Companc, Argentinian race car driver<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Leighton Baines, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Sandra Echeverr\u00eda, Mexican actress and singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0James Ellsworth, American wrestler<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Karla Souza, Mexican actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Roy Hibbert, American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Clifton Geathers, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013 Alex Russell, Australian actor<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer<\/li>\r\n<li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Derrick Nix, American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Dalton Pompey, Canadian baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1995\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Abbi Grant, Scottish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, singer and songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 \u2013 Emily Whitehead, artistic gymnast<sup>]<\/sup><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; Ivana Trump was divorced from Donald Trump after 12 years of marriage. 1991 &#8211; Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic death sentence for blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in New York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of speech in the\u00a0U.S.). 1994 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1468],"class_list":{"0":"post-23321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-11-december"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-649","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24104,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321\/revisions\/24104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}