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)
The Parliament of India Sansad is attacked by Islamic jihadi terrorists; 15 people are killed, including all the perps (2001)
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is apprehended near his home town of Tikrit (2003)
President Barack Obama signs a new welfare entitlement into law called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (2010)
President Barack Obama and FLOTUS host leftwing leaders of the Jewish community at the White House on the sixth day of Hanukkah (2012)
b: George P. Shultz (1920); d: Samuel Gompers (1924), Irma Grese (1945), Stanley Williams (2005)
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