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December 23rd, 2009

Today in History

1986:
The Scaled Composites Voyager aircraft completes the first non-stop flight around the world without refueling.

1979:
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: Soviet military units occupy Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan

1947:
The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories

1916:
World War I: In the Battle of Magdhaba, Allied forces capture a Turkish garrison on the Sinai peninsula.

1913:
The Federal Reserve Act becomes law

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