Monday, December 15

Today in histroy

1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into practice Bill of Rights Day.

.   1941 – The Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union.

1960 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy. 

  1960 – King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule. 

  1961 – Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges ofcrimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization

1966        Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse and the Walt Disney Studios,died
 
 
1992 - El Salvador's government and leftist guerrilla leaders formally declared the end of the country's 12-year civil war.

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