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Classic headlineAstronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
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OddlyTrue News Stand — December 16
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Weird history on December 16
1707 Oddly trueThe last recorded eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji released some 800 million m3 (28 billion cu ft) of volcanic ash.
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1986 First everThe Jeltoqsan riots erupt in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, in response to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of ethnic Kazakh Dinmukhamed Kunaev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, and his replacement with Gennady Kolbin, an ethnic Russian from the Russian SFSR.
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1811 First everThe first two in a series of four severe earthquakes struck the Midwestern United States and made the Mississippi River appear to run backward.
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Vintage clipping · 1908
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home (Jackson, Miss.), September 2, 1908
Page 10 · mentions "meteorite"
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