December 25

1980 Percival Arland Ussher, writer, philosopher and Irish scholar who published the first translation of Brian Merriman’s The midnight court, died. 1989 The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed after a brief military trial. 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. The Cold War ended the following day, ... Read more

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