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December 22nd, 2009

Today in History

1999:
Tandja Mamadou became President of Niger.

1910:
Chicago Union Stock Yards Fire, 21 firemen were killed.

1894:
The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.

1885:
Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

1849:
The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is canceled at the last second.

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