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CHRISTMAS STORY HOUSE IS UP FOR SALE

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(FOX NEWS) – The house from the film "A Christmas Story"(2007)
has officially been put up for sale in Cleveland, Ohio.

The sale in its entirety makes up 1.3 acres of property, according
to a listing posted Monday on achristmasstoryhouse.com.

Chad Whitmer, the listing agent from the Northeast Ohio-based commercial real estate company Hoff and Leigh, said the listing
includes the house, the Bumpus house, the gift shop, museum
and a number of vacant lots that have been acquired by the
home’s current owner over the years.

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SECOND MANNED MOON MISSION IN 1969

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Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the
moon, was launched from Cape Canaveral,
Florida, with
astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr.; Richard F. Gordon, Jr.; and
Alan L. Bean aboard. President
Richard Nixon viewed the
liftoff from Pad A at Cape Canaveral, the first president to 
attend the liftoff of a manned space flight.

Thirty-six seconds after takeoff, lightning struck the ascending
Saturn 5 launch rocket, which tripped the circuit breakers in the command module and caused a power failure. Fortunately, the
launching rocket continued up normally, and within a few
minutes power was restored in the spacecraft.

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December 12, 1969

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BALL GLOVE WAS BIG ‘CATCH’ AT AUCTION

Babe Ruth glove

(Fox News) – A baseball glove that Babe Ruth used nearly a century
ago while playing for the New York Yankees sold for a record $1.5
million at an auction on Saturday.
 

Ruth gifted the glove, which has light wear and even a "spatter
from tobacco juice," to Jimmy Austin, who played for the St.
Louis Browns.

It remained in Austin’s family until it was sold at the Louisville
Slugger Museum & Factory
auction on Saturday.

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George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr.
(February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)

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(December 8, 1879 – March 6, 1965)

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MYSTERIOUS CAR CRASH ON THIS DAY

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On November 13, 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood was killed
in a car accident near Crescent,
Oklahoma, north of Oklahoma
City. Silkwood worked as a technician at a plutonium plant
operated by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, and she had been
critical of the plant’s health and safety procedures.

In September, she had complained to the Atomic Energy
Commission about unsafe conditions at the plant (a week
before her death, plant monitors had found that she was
contaminated with radioactivity herself), and the night she
died, she was on her way to a meeting with a union rep and
a reporter for The New York Times, reportedly with a folder full
of documents that proved that Kerr-McGee was acting negligently
when it came to worker safety at the plant. However, no such
folder was found in the wreckage of her car, lending credence to
the theory that someone had forced her off the road to prevent her
from telling what she knew.

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The story was chronicled in Mike Nichols‘s 1983
Academy Award nominated film Silkwood in
which she was portrayed by
Meryl Streep.

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MAN WHO INSPIRED MOVIE HAS DIED AT 77

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Mehran Karimi Nasseri  (1945 – 12 November 2022)

(USA TODAY) – The Iranian man who inspired the Steven Spielberg
film
"The Terminal” died in Paris’ Charles-de-Gaulle airport after
living there for almost two decades, French officials said today.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, a political refugee, died after a heart attack
in the airport’s Terminal 2F, Paris airport authority officials reported.

Police and a medical team treated Nasseri but were not able to
save him, an airport spokesperson
told Agence France-Presse
news agency.

Nasseri, who the Guardian reported called himself "Sir Alfred,"
got caught in an immigration trap in the late 80s – unable to
enter France. Born in 1945, Nasseri, lived in the airport’s
Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, first in legal limbo because he
lacked residency papers then later by choice, USA TODAY
archives show.       

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Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film, The Terminal ( 2004)


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