On this day: December 18

POSTED: 10:51 PM PST Dec 17, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 17, 2012 

America celebrates its first official day of thanksgiving, "The Nutcracker" debuts, the first "Pink Panther" short premieres, the first nuclear power plant in America goes online, all on this day.

OTD December 18 - Joseph Stalin
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1878: Joseph Stalin, the Premier of the Soviet Union from May 6, 1941, until his death on March 5, 1953, is born in the town of Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (now Georgia).

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