The California State Legislature and the US Senate have declared the second Saturday of December to be the Day of the Horse. The second Saturday of December each year is also International Shareware Day. The United Nations (UN) has declared December 11th as International Mountain Day.
On this day in 1816, Indiana became the 19th state to enter the Union. Seventy-four years ago, on December 11, 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the English throne to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Warfield Simpson.
UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) is 64 years old today (established December 11, 1946). Russian author and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would have been 92 years old today (born December 11, 1918). Former New York Mayor Fiorello Henry La Guardia was born on this date in 1882.
Thirty years ago on this date, the television show "Magnum, PI" featuring Tom Selleck premiered.
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