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1879 – Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
1937 – Walt Disney produces the first long animated movie titled Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
1964 – British House of Commons abolishes the death penalty.
1966 – Soviet spacecraft Luna 31 lands on the moon.
1968 – US launches Apollo 8 rocket carrying three American astronauts to orbit around the moon.
1988 – A Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 crashes on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people aboard.
Born today:
1879 – Joseph Stalin, a communist leader and the leader of the Soviet Union.
Passed away:
2006 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan.
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