On this day :
1999 Panama Canal turned over to Panama, 1775 Patriots are defeated at Quebec, 1927 Henry Ford publishes the last issue of the Dearborn Independent, 1862 Battle of Parkers Crossroads, 1978 United States ends official relations with Nationalist China, 1984 Subway vigilante turns himself in, 1972 Baseball star dies in plane crash, 1600 Charter granted to the East India Company, 1775 Patriots defeated at Quebec, 1879 Edison demonstrates incandescent light, 1968 Soviets test supersonic airliner, 1937 Anthony Hopkins born, 1972 Pete Hamill quits drinking, 1985 Rick Nelson dies in a plane crash, 1943 John Denver born in New Mexico, 1961 Kennedy and Khrushchev exchange holiday greetings, 1972 Plane carrying Roberto Clemente crashes, 1968 Bloodiest year of the war ends, 1971 US annual casualty figures down, 1972 US and communist negotiators prepare to return to the Paris talks, 1880 American general and diplomat George C Marshall is born, 1944 Hungary declares war on Germany,
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