{"id":67896,"date":"2015-12-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=67896"},"modified":"2015-12-21T04:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T04:06:41","slug":"this-week-in-history-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/12\/this-week-in-history-55\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Dec 21-27<\/em><\/p>\n

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

\u201cAlways remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> – <\/strong>Unattributed
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DECEMBER 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

2004\u00a0 <\/strong>Iraq War<\/a>: A suicide bomber<\/a> killed 22<\/a> at the forward operating base<\/a> next to the main US military airfield at Mosul<\/a>, Iraq<\/a>, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 <\/strong>The Spanish Civil Guard<\/a> intercepts a van loaded with 950\u00a0kg of explosives that ETA<\/a> intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso<\/a> in Madrid<\/a>, Spain.<\/p>\n

1995\u00a0 <\/strong>The city of Bethlehem<\/a> passes from Israeli<\/a> to Palestinian<\/a> control.<\/p>\n

1994\u00a0 <\/strong>Mexican volcano Popocat\u00e9petl<\/a>, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.<\/p>\n

1992\u00a0 <\/strong>A Dutch<\/a> DC-10<\/a>, flight Martinair MP 495<\/a>, crashes at Faro Airport<\/a>, killing 56.<\/p>\n

1988\u00a0 <\/strong>A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103<\/a> over Lockerbie<\/a>, Dumfries and Galloway<\/a>, Scotland, killing 270.<\/p>\n

1979\u00a0 <\/strong>USSR performs nuclear test<\/a> at Eastern Kazakh\/Semipalitinsk<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n