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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 13, the 348th day of 2016. There are 18 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On Dec. 13, 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.)On this date:In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sighted present-day New Zealand.In 1769, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter.In 1862, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside launched futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg; the soundly defeated Northern troops withdrew two days later.In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.
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