{"id":67339,"date":"2015-12-07T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=67339"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:19:50","slug":"this-week-in-history-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/12\/this-week-in-history-53\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TWH<\/a><\/p>\n

Dec 7-13<\/em><\/p>\n

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

\u201cOne day you\u2019re seventeen and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And that someday is yesterday. And this is your life<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> \u2013 One Tree Hill<\/p>\n

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DECMEBER 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 <\/strong>Ante Gotovina<\/a>, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes but later acquitted, is captured in the Playa de las Am\u00e9ricas<\/a>, Tenerife<\/a>, by Spanish police.<\/p>\n

1995\u00a0 <\/strong>The Galileo spacecraft<\/a> arrives at Jupiter<\/a>, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/a> during Mission STS-34<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1993\u00a0 <\/strong>The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson<\/a> murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR<\/a> in Nassau County, New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1988\u00a0 <\/strong>Yasser Arafat<\/a> recognizes the right of Israel<\/a> to exist.<\/p>\n

PLO\u2019s Recognition of Israel:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n