December 11th

2009
Tiger Woods announced on his website that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf to try to save his marriage to Elin Nordegren. (The couple divorced in August 2010.).
Elin Nordegren
2008
Bernard Madoff, an investment manager, was charged with defrauding clients of as much as $50 billion in what might be the largest swindle in Wall Street history.
Bernard Madoff
2002
A congressional report found that intelligence agencies before Sept. 11, 2001, were poorly organized, poorly equipped and slow to pursue clues that might have prevented that day's terrorist attacks.
September 11 attacks
2000
Shortstop Alex Rodriguez agreed to a $252 million 10-year deal with the Texas Rangers, the most lucrative sports contract in history at the time.
1998
The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
1997
Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
1997 world oil market chronology
1994
Russian troops rolled into breakaway republic of Chechnya in a failed bid to restore Moscow's control over the region.
History of Georgia (country)
1981
The U.N. Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be its fifth secretary-general.
United Nations Secretary-General selection
1972
Man landed on the moon for the last time during the Apollo 17 mission.
Apollo 17
1946
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established.
Portal:United Nations/Selected article
1941
Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, which responded in kind.
Italian declaration of war on the United States
1936
Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
Cousin relationships between British monarchs and consorts ...
1931
Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada).
Statute of Westminster 1931
1913
'Mona Lisa' recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum.
Vincenzo Peruggia
1844
Nitrous oxide was used for the first time in dentistry.
Horace Wells
1816
Indiana became the 19th state.
History of Indiana
1792
France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state.
Trial of Louis XVI
1620
103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS).
Plymouth Colony
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