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THIS DAY IN HISTORY Wednesday, 11 December 2013

	1620 103 pilgrims who had sailed from England in the Mayflower, landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. They were the first European settlers to arrive in North America.

	1882 Subramanya Bharathi (d. 1921), pioneer of modern Tamil poetry, fiery journalist and freedom fighter was born in Tamil Nadu.

	1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio signal, from Cornwall to Newfoundland.

	1936 Edward VIII became the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily, in order to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.

	1972 Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last manned Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

	1981 Muhammad Ali lost to Trevor Berbick in the 61st and last bout of his career.

	1994 In the largest Russian offensive since the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, military forces poured into the breakaway republic of Chechnya.

	2001 China joined the World Trade Organization, boosting its economy.

	2004 M.S. Subbulakshmi (b. 1916), the renowned Carnatic vocalist, died. She was the first Indian musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna and the Ramon Magsaysay award.