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December 8th, 2009

Today in History

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.

1914:
Battle of the Falkland Islands fought.

1907:
King Gustav V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.

1888:
Bulgaria's National Assembly adopts an Act on establishing a higher school in Sofia.

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