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Sunday, Dec. 27: This day in history
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Today is Sunday, Dec. 27, the 362nd day of 2020. There are four days left in the year.
Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, was replaced by Babrak Karmal.
scientist Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France.
In 1958, American physicist James Van Allen reported the discovery of a second radiation belt around Earth, in addition to one found earlier in the year.
In 1968, Apollo 8 and its three astronauts made a safe, nighttime splashdown in the Pacific.
In 1985, Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; 19 victims were killed, plus four attackers who were slain by police and security personnel.
A forklift operator loads absentee ballots for mailing in Raleigh, N.C., on Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) The Fourth Circuit seemed unlikely Thursday to side with a conservative legal group in its effort to get sensitive voting records from North Carolina, based on claims that the state has not properly maintained its rolls.
Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indiana-based nonprofit whose president was a member of President Donald Trump’s failed voter fraud commission, sued the North Carolina State Board of Elections and its Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell last year in an attempt to get voter data it argues should be released under the National Voting Rights Act of 1993.