On this day: December 13Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States (1941)
Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations (1996)
Vice President AlGore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd POTUS (2000)
President Barack Obama signs a new welfare entitlement, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, into law (2010)
b: George P. Shultz (1920), Jeff Baxter (1948); d: Samuel Gompers (1924), Irma Grese (1945)
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