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The Convention of 1833, a political gathering
of settlers in Mexican Texas, was one in a
series of unsuccessful attempts at political
negotiation that eventually led to the Texas
Revolution. It followed the Convention of 1832,
whose resolutions had not been addressed by
Stephen F. Austin
the Mexican government. Delegates met in San
Felipe de Austin to draft a series of petitions,
with the volatile William H. Wharton presiding. Although the
convention's agenda largely mirrored that of the Convention of
1832, delegates also agreed to pursue independent statehood for
the province, which was at the time part of the state of Coahuila y
The Parliament of Australia passes legislation to
allow same-sex marriage.
Halszkaraptor, a duck-like dinosaur genus
thought to have been semiaquatic, is described
from a Mongolian fossil.
U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the
United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's
capital.
The International Olympic Committee bans
Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter
Olympics, following investigation into doping at the
2014 Games.
Recent deaths: Max Clifford Johnny Hallyday
Michael I of Romania Jean d'Ormesson

Tejas. Under the guidance of Sam Houston, former governor of the

US state of Tennessee, a committee drafted a state constitution to On this day...
submit to the Mexican Congress. Stephen F. Austin (pictured)
journeyed to Mexico City to present the petitions to the government. December 10: Human Rights Day
Frustrated with the lack of progress, in October Austin wrote a letter
1508 The Papal States,
encouraging Texans to form their own state government. This letter France, Aragon and the Holy
was forwarded to the Mexican government, and Austin was Roman Empire formed the
League of Cambrai, an
imprisoned in early 1834. (Full article...)
alliance against the Republic of
Venice.
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1861 Forces led by Nguyn
"Habits (Stay High)" Trung Trc, an anti-colonial
guerrilla leader in southern
Vietnam, sank the French
Did you know... lorcha L'Esperance.
Selma Lagerlf

1909 Swedish author Selma Lagerlf (pictured)

... that the Bacon Super T-6 (pictured)
was described as looking like the result
of "an illicit hangar affair between a T-33
and a T-6"?
... that Johann Balthasar Knig, the Bacon Super T-6 in
church musician of the Katharinenkirche faux-Russian
and director of music in Frankfurt,
markings
published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies?
... that Bill Gates plans to build a "smart city" near Phoenix,
Arizona?
... that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire
McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her
swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby?
... that the mushrooms of Austroboletus olivaceoglutinosus
have a fruity smell?
... that Sir John Minsterworth, who joined the French army
during the Hundred Years' War, was later returned to England
became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature.
1979 The Kuomintang (KMT) dictatorship of
Taiwan arrested a large number of opposition
leaders who had organized pro-democracy
demonstrations, an incident credited with ending
the KMT's rule in 2000.
1989 At the first open pro-democracy
demonstration in Mongolia, journalist Tsakhiagiin
Elbegdorj announced the formation of the
Mongolian Democratic Union, which would be
instrumental in ending Communist rule four
months later.
Michael IV the Paphlagonian (d. 1041) Olivier
Messiaen (b. 1908) Diane Schuur (b. 1953)
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and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1377 for "wilful support" of December 11
the enemy?
... that one of the greatest mountain ranges in China is
made up of multiple individual tectonic blocks, dividing north
and south China?
... that Ghanaian academic Kwesi Yankah wrote the title song
for the Free SHS policy?

Today's featured picture

Intentional camera movement is a photography

technique in which a camera is moved during the exposure
for a creative or artistic effect. This causes the image
points to move across the recording medium, producing an
apparent streaking in the resulting image. The image
shown here depicts a bluebell wood on Ashridge Estate in
Hertfordshire, England; the intentional camera movement
along the vertical plane has created an impressionistic
effect.

Photograph: Colin

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