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Aging emperor Francis Joseph warned military man Don Miguel Braganza that he would be exiled if he did not stop plotting to overthrow the government of Portugal.
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Chile and Peruvian officials were meeting in Washington to try resolving their disputes. One of the main issues was over the fate of Tacoa Arica.
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Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City opening with a spectacular stage show, featuring Ray Bolger and Martha Graham.
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Workers and peasants, the neglected masses, were benefited by President Lacaro Curdenas’s Agrarian Reform law.
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Nazi battleship, The Scharnhorst, was sunk by the British off the coast of Norway. The battleship was a 28,000 ton vessel that probably intended to strike a convoy near Murmansk.
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Indonesia gains it's independence from the Netherlands after 400 years of Dutch Rule.
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French lawmakers were saddled with the thorny problem of whether or not to allow West Germany to rearm and join NATO.
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France explodes it's third atomic bomb test in the Sahara desert in Africa.
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December 27th , 1994 : When Rwanda’s president was killed in a plane crash the country was plunged into a blood bath and genocide.
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Johnathan Rankin was born on this day