Boxing Day
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1925 - The Communist Party of India is founded.
1976 – The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) is founded.
1979 - Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
Birthdays
1791 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine (d. 1871)
1928 - Martin Cooper - inventor of Hand Held Mobile Phone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cooper_(inventor)
1940 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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