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- 1830: Simon Bolivar - Revolutionary
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- 2007: I Am Legend - Will Smith
- 2006: The Pursuit of Happyness - Will Smith
- 2005: King Kong - Jack Black, Naomi Watts
- 2004: A Series of Unfortunate Events - Jim Carrey
- 2003: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin
- 1998: Star Trek: Insurrection - Patrick Stewart The Numbers: Historical Box Office Charts
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The 1990s
- 1996: Kofi Annan of Ghana is named the 7th United Nations Secretary General.
The 1960s
- 1963: The United States passes the Clean Air Act which is designed to protect the Environment against Air Pollution
December 17 1944
1944: The United States, military announced that effective January 2, 1945, 110,000 Japanese Americans would be freed from internment camps built by the military, where they had been kept since 1942 as a reaction to the Pearl Harbor attack.
December 17 1903
1903: The Wright Brothers make the first successful flight in North Carolina.
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