1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever.
1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge.
1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.
1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.
1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter.
1962 Operation Chopper begins, America's first combat mission in the Vietnam War.
1966 "Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC.
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