 | Monday, December 13th The 347th day of 2010. There are 18 days left in the year. |
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Today's Highlights in History |  | ||
 See a larger version of this front page. | On Dec. 13, 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. Martial law formally ended in 1983. (Go to article.) | ||
 | On December 13, 1879, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about John Sherman, the treasury secretary and former (and future) U.S. senator. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) | ||
On this date in: | |
| 1642 | Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand. |
| 1769 | Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter. |
| 1862 | Confederate forces dealt Union troops a major defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia. |
| 1918 | President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France to attend the post-World War I peace conference at Versailles, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office. |
| 1988 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United States refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York. |
| 1989 | South African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk's office in Cape Town. |
| 1996 | The U.N. Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana to be the world body's seventh secretary-general. |
| 2000 | Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency 36 days after Election Day. |
| 2001 | The Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin Laden in which the al-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his "most optimistic" expectations. |
| 2001 | Five suspected Islamic militants killed nine people in an attack on India's parliament before being killed themselves. |
| 2001 | President George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia. |
| 2002 | Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Boston archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal. |
| 2003 | Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, near his hometown of Tikrit. |
| 2007 | Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, approved a takeover by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. |
| 2007 | The Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was released, implicating seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars. |
| Current Birthdays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taylor Swift turns 21 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 AP Photo/Evan Agostini Country singer Taylor Swift turns 21 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Historic Birthdays | |
| Carlos Montoya | |
 12/13/1903 - 3/3/1993 Spanish-American flamenco guitarist (Go to obit.) | |
| 85 | Carlos Gozzi 12/13/1720 - 4/4/1806 Italian poet and dramatist |
| 72 | Sir William Hamilton 12/13/1730 - 4/6/1803 English diplomat and archaeologist |
| 68 | Joseph Howe 12/13/1804 - 6/1/1873 Canadian statesman and publisher |
| 86 | Lawrence Lowell 12/13/1856 - 1/6/1943 American lawyer, educator, and president of Harvard University (1909-1933) |
| 73 | Emily Carr 12/13/1871 - 3/2/1945 Canadian painter and writer |
| 76 | Alvin York 12/13/1887 - 9/2/1964 American military hero of World War I |
| 90 | Marc Connelly 12/13/1890 - 12/21/1980 American playwright and journalist |
| 84 | Archie Moore 12/13/1913 - 12/9/1998 American boxer |
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