{"id":23336,"date":"2023-12-12T04:52:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23336"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:40:10","slug":"history-of-12-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-12-december\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 12 December"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1991 &#8211; At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, the first web server outside of Europe was installed.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; The Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted former President Fernando Collor de Mello of corruption charges that had forced him to resign in 1992.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; IBM stopped shipments of personal computers with Intel&#8217;s flawed Pentium chip.<\/li>\r\n<li>1995 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate stopped a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against the American flag.<\/li>\r\n<li>1995 &#8211; Two French airmen shot down over Bosnia arrived home after almost four months of being held captive by the Bosnian Serbs.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as &#8220;Carlos the Jackal,&#8221; went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Justice Department ordered Microsoft to sell its Internet browser separately from its Windows operating system to prevent it from building a monopoly of Web access programs.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; Denver Pyle received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; The House Judiciary Committee rejected censure, and approved the final article of impeachment against\u00a0U.S. President Clinton. The case was submitted to the full House for a verdict.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the\u00a0Florida\u00a0Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov.\u00a0George W. Bush\u00a0the next day.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City,\u00a0OK, that killed 168 and injured 500.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; The\u00a0Texas Rangers\u00a0signed Alex Rodriguez to a record breaking 10-year, $252 million contract. The contract amount broke all\u00a0major league baseball\u00a0records and all professional sports records.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for being the leader of a Cuban spy ring. His conviction was based on his role in the infiltration of\u00a0U.S.\u00a0military bases and in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose planes were shot down five years before.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; In Beverly Hills,\u00a0CA, actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue for shoplifting and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and hair accessories were valued at $4,760.<\/li>\r\n<li>2002 &#8211; North Korea announced that it would reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials believed was being used to develop weapons.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2012 \u2013 North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmy\u014fngs\u014fng-3 Unit 2.<\/li>\r\n<li>2015 \u2013 The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted.<\/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 \u2013 Pedro R\u00edos, Spanish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013 Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013 Stephen Warnock, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013 Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013 Roni Porokara, Finnish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Daniel Agger, Danish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pat Calathes, Greek-American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013 Daddy Birori, Rwandan footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013 P\u00ebrparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Nina Kolari\u010d, Slovenian long jumper<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0T. 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