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December 8th, 2009

Today in History

1976:
The Eagles release one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Hotel California.

1969:
An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm killing 93 people.

1968:
NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.

1949:
Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.

1941:
Holocaust: First Nazi use of gas vans on Jews, at the Chelmno camp near Lodz.

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