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• ...that Bill Klem (pictured), a major league baseball umpire who retired in 1941, holds umpiring records for most games officiated, most World Series officiated and most appearances as the home plate umpire?
• ...that in Hindu mythology, after Lakshmindara, son of Chand Sadagar, died of snakebite on his wedding night, his bride Behula accompanied his corpse on a raft floating in a river?
• ...that the title of psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley's book The Mask of Sanity refers to the mask of sincerity, generosity, and trustworthiness the psychopath wears to disguise his inability to feel emotion for others?
• ...that the fleet of the Royal Naval Patrol Service, also known as "Harry Tate's Navy" or "Churchill's Pirates", consisted of hundreds of requisitioned trawler‎s, whalers, drifters, paddle steamers, yachts, tugs and the like?
• ...that dealkalizing glass enhances its resistance to corrosion?
• ...that in return for reinforcements against the Lombards, Cunimund offered Emperor Justin II the city of Sirmium on two separate occasions?
  

• President Pervez Musharraf (pictured) of Pakistan declares an end to the six-week state of emergency.
• The "Mitchell Report" is released, naming a number of Major League Baseball players who are alleged to have used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone.
• Two bombings in Algiers kill dozens of people, including 17 UN employees.
• A state of disaster is declared in South Korea's Taean county, after the country's worst ever oil spill.
• The Afghan National Army and the International Security Assistance Force launch an assault near Musa Qala in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, against Taliban insurgents.
• Systematic food safety irregularities are revealed at four stores affiliated with ICA, the leading grocery franchise in Sweden, prompting a criminal investigation.

December 18: Hajj in Islam begins (2007); Republic Day in Niger (1958).

• 218 BC – Second Punic War: Hannibal (pictured) had his first great victory over the Roman Republic at the Battle of the Trebia.
• 1865 – Slavery in the United States was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.
• 1892 – The first performance of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fairy tale-ballet The Nutcracker was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
• 1966 – Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
• 1987 – Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Perl via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup.

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