7 Great Things That Happened on Dec. 18th

(1892) The premier of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker in St. Petersburg.

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(1865) Slavery was banned in the US as the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified by two-thirds of states, Georgia putting it over the top.

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(1958) Niger’s Republic celebrates becoming autonomous (gaining self-government).

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(1997) Scotland was granted its own parliament, its first one in three centuries.

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(1999) Activist Julia ”Butterfly” Hill climbed down the ancient redwood in Humboldt County, Calif., where she lived for 2 years to protest logging.

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(2009) The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, closed with the signing of the Copenhagen Accord.

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(2011) The last the US military troops left Iraq after a nine year war.

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