December 11: On This Progressive DayA workers' uprising occurs, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev (1905)
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.; the U.S., in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy (1941)
The murderous progressive Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City; an unknown dissident fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech (1964)
Progressive Islamic jihadis backed by al-Qaeda bomb the Constitutional court building in Algiers, Algeria and the United Nations office, killing 45 (2007)
Democrat political donor Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme (2008)
b: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931), John Kerry (1943)
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