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Elections for president and the legislative assembly and were held in Costa Rica.Former president Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno (who had served from 1910 to 1914) won a plurality (46%) of the vote, not enough for an outright victory, but in voting for the 43 seats of the Asamblea Legislativa, Jiménez's Partido Republicano Nacional finished second (with 18 seats) to the Partido Agrícola of ...
Workers at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City discovered that there had been a mistake in the museum's exhibit of "The Last Works of Henri Matisse".For 47 days, beginning on October 18, Le Bateau had been on display, hanging upside-down, and 116,000 visitors had passed it before Mrs. Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake.
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 6, a 5-ton satellite, into orbit with two dogs, Pchelka ("Little Bee") and Mushka ("Little Fly"), plus mice, insects and plants.The next day, the capsule was reported to have burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere at too steep an angle. [1]
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
The American radio soap opera Ma Perkins began a 27-season run with 7,065 episodes, starting on the NBC Red Network.It would last until November 25, 1960. [5]Tobacco Road, the most popular Broadway play and musical of the 1930s, premiered at the Theatre Mask in New York City with the first of 3,182 performances.
1818 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1818th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 818th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1818, the ...
18 Wednesday, December 18, 1929. 19 Thursday, December 19, 1929. ... [18] The Reichstag adopted a bill requiring shops to close on Christmas Eve at 5 p.m. [19]
On December 18, the United States began Operation Linebacker II, the most massive aerial bombardment ever made of North Vietnam. [ 37 ] Born: Chris Grant , Australian rules football star; in Daylesford, Victoria