{"id":103119,"date":"2017-12-11T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=103119"},"modified":"2017-12-06T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T12:09:34","slug":"this-week-in-history-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/12\/this-week-in-history-158\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dec 11-17, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2015\u00a0Madeline Miller,\u00a0 The Song of Achilles<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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DECEMBER 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014\u00a0 <\/strong>The city of Detroit, Michigan emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0 <\/strong>At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings<\/a> in the Alawite<\/a> village of Aqrab<\/a>, Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 <\/strong>Bernard Madoff<\/a> is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 <\/strong>Insurgency in the Maghreb<\/a>: Two car bombs explode<\/a> in Algiers<\/a>, Algeria<\/a>, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0 <\/strong>Felipe Calder\u00f3n<\/a>, the President of Mexico<\/a>, launches a military-led offensive<\/a> to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoac\u00e1n<\/a>. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0 <\/strong>The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust<\/a> is opened in Tehran<\/a>, Iran<\/a>, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a>; nations such as Israel<\/a> and the United States express concern.<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 <\/strong>Cronulla riots<\/a>: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese<\/a> (and many who are not) in Cronulla, New South Wales<\/a>, Australia. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.<\/p>\n

2001\u00a0 <\/strong>The People\u2019s Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

World Trade Organization:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n