++This Tweet in History: December 30, 2009++

WRLD: 1922 - Soviet, Socialist republics unite

SPRT: 1981 - Great One, at 20, nets 5 goals, getting to 50 in record time

TECH: 1986 - Brits announce farewell to canary in a coal mine

BDAY: Tiger Woods; Davy Jones; Michael Nesmith; Rudyard Kipling

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