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Today in History
1793: Children are executed by the new guillotine invention for the first time, at Nantes France.

1944: The Malmedy massacre, where 81 Americans of Battery B, 285th Field Artillery are killed by Waffen SS in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge.

1961: Adilson Marcelino Aviles sets a circus tent on fire at the Gran Circo Norte Americano, Brazil, killing 323 people, mostly children. 500 other youngsters were badly burned in this worst circus fire in history. Aviles stated that he wanted revenge on circus owners.

1969: The US Air Force terminates Project Blue Book, which investigated reports of UFO's.

1977: A mystery blob of molten metal fell at Big Lake Park, Council bluffs, Nebraska. 'Officials' branded it a hoax, despite several reports of a 'bright trail' in the sky that night. A USAF test indicated 'it was neither meteor nor part of a space satellite'. Further blobs fell on Council Bluffs on 5 July and 10 July the following year. In the last case, firemen were called to douse a small blaze and discovered a mass of splattered metal about three feet in diameter lying in a small impact crater.

1989: Over two thousand protesters are massacred by the government in Timisoara, Romania. It is the spark that brings down the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed on Christmas Day.

1989: Bartholomew J. Simpson's listed birthday.

1997: A "Pokemon" episode shown on Japanese television induces seizures in at least 750 children.

1997: President Clinton's panel on race relations met at Annandale High School in Virginia.

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