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Coroner: Worst drink-driving crash I’ve seen in 30 years

2 Visitors from two liners, one a

giant, pack the streets

3 Public passionate during second

day of Napier Port hearings

4 Frustration continues for

Onekawa pools

5 Retail in good heart ahead of

Christmas

Quiz

1 What is the most populated country in Africa?

2 In which US state was the

television western Bonanza set?

3 What is the third smallest US

state?

4 What was the subtitle of the third

Terminator movie?

5 Name the Saudi Arabian king assassinated by his nephew in 1975?

Joke of the day

Q: Why is there a gate around cemeteries?

A: Because people are dying to get in!

Bible quote

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

History

43 BC: Roman statesman and scholar Marcus Tullius Cicero was slain at the order of the Second Triumvirate.

1911: China abolished the requirement that men wear their hair in a queue, or ponytail.

1941: Japan launched a surprise attack on the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as part of its plan to conquer Southeast Asian territories; the raid, which claimed 2400 American lives, prompted the

United States to declare war against Japan the next day.

1972: America’s last moon mission was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral.

1987: Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Ronald Reagan.

1988: A major earthquake in the Soviet Union devastated northern Armenia; official estimates put the death toll at 25,000.

Birthdays

● Linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky is 90.

● Actress Ellen Burstyn is 86.

● Actress Priscilla Barnes is 61.

● Rock musician Tim Butler (The Psychedelic Furs) is 60.

● Actor C. Thomas Howell is 52.

● Actor Chris Chalk is 41.

● Pop-rock singer/celebrity judge Sara Bareilles (bah-REHL’-es) is 39.

● Actress Jennifer Carpenter is 39.

● Actor Jack Huston is 36.

● Singer Aaron Carter is 31.

Quiz Answers

1. Nigeria 2. Nevada 3. Connecticut

4. Rise of the Machines 5. Faisal.

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