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12/13/2015
« on: December 13, 2015, 01:19:05 AM »
What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  Any cigar deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about? Join in this discussion and perhaps learn something along the way.  Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2015, 02:05:26 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2015, 03:41:57 AM »
Today is Sunday, Dec. 13, the 347th day of 2015. There are 18 days left in the year.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2015, 03:42:46 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:



On Dec. 13, 1937, the Chinese city of Nanjing fell to Japanese forces; what followed was a massacre of war prisoners, soldiers and citizens. (China maintains as many as 300,000 people died; Japan says the toll was far less.)

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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2015, 03:43:09 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2015, 03:43:35 AM »
In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sighted present-day New Zealand.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2015, 03:43:56 AM »
In 1769, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2015, 03:44:22 AM »
In 1862, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside launched futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg; the soundly defeated Northern troops withdrew two days later.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2015, 03:44:43 AM »
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2015, 03:45:05 AM »
In 1928, George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" had its premiere at Carnegie Hall in New York.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2015, 03:45:42 AM »
In 1944, during World War II, the light cruiser USS Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack off Negros Island in the Philippines that claimed 133 lives.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2015, 03:46:05 AM »
In 1962, the United States launched Relay 1, a communications satellite which retransmitted television, telephone and digital signals.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2015, 03:46:24 AM »
In 1974, Malta became a republic. George Harrison visited the White House, where he met President Gerald R. Ford.
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2015, 03:46:47 AM »
In 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.)
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Re: 12/13/2015
« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2015, 03:47:11 AM »
In 1994, an American Eagle commuter plane crashed short of Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15 of the 20 people on board.
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