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December 31, 1720
Happy Birthday Charles Edward Stuart!
December 31, 1738
Happy Birthday General Charles Cornwallis!
“The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.”
– Chamfort （1741-1794 ） (via nao-tokyogirl)
December 29, 1721
Happy Birthday Madame de Pompadour!
December 27, 1773
Happy Birthday Sir George Cayley!
December 24, 1777
Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.
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December 19, 1778
Happy Birthday Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
December 18, 1777
The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
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“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
December 16, 1770
Happy Birthday Ludwig van Beethoven! (Baptism date December 17)
December 16, 1773
The Boston Tea Party occurs.
December 16, 1795
Happy Birthday Jane Austen!
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December 14, 1799
George Washington dies.
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“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one...”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
““When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the...”
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