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December 3
1901. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000 word speech to the Congress, asking it to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". This will lead to the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and the subsequent breakup of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
1929. President Hoover announces to Congress that the worst effects of the stock market crash over a month earlier are past the country, and that its population is regaining faith in the economy.
1944. Even before WWII is over, a clash in Athens between Greek government forces supported by the British Army and ELAS, a left wing military organization that controlled huge swaths of the Greek countryside heralds the coming Greek Civil War.
1971. The Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 begins.
1992. The UN passes a resolution to establish a peacekeeping force in Somalia. This will lead to the events memorialized in the movie and book, Blackhawk Down.
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