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Events on the 12th of December in history

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12 Dec 0627 Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
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12 Dec 0627 Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen
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12 Dec 1098 First Crusade: Siege of Ma'arrat al-Numan – Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they reportedly resort to cannibalism.
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12 Dec 1098 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
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12 Dec 1388 Mary of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.
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12 Dec 1408 The Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order is created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary.
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12 Dec 1474 Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile & Aragon
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12 Dec 1479 Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
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12 Dec 1524 Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
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12 Dec 1527 Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
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12 Dec 1653 Barebone-parliament ends
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12 Dec 1677 Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin
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12 Dec 1700 Utrecht / Overijssel / Buren / Leerdam / Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar
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12 Dec 1715 Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund
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12 Dec 1769 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
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12 Dec 1777 Reverend Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape
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12 Dec 1781 American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant – A British fleet led by HMS Victory defeats a French fleet.
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12 Dec 1787 Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, five days after Delaware became the first.
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12 Dec 1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
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12 Dec 1791 Bank of the US opens
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12 Dec 1792 In Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven (21) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
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12 Dec 1800 Washington DC established as capital of US
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12 Dec 1822 Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
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12 Dec 1822 M
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12 Dec 1858 1st Canadian coins circulated (1
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12 Dec 1862 Battle of Dumfries, Virginia
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12 Dec 1862 American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
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12 Dec 1862 Naval Engagement at Yazoo River MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
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12 Dec 1870 Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
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12 Dec 1870 Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman, the first being Hiram Revels.
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12 Dec 1870 Joseph Rainey (South Carolina) became 1st black sworn into House of Representatives
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12 Dec 1871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
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12 Dec 1878 Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St. Louis Dispatch"
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12 Dec 1884 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
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12 Dec 1897 Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
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12 Dec 1897 Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
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12 Dec 1897 Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in New York Journal
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12 Dec 1898 1st 1st-class game between NSW and Tasmania
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12 Dec 1898 1st 1st-class game between New South Wales & Tasmania
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12 Dec 1899 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
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12 Dec 1899 George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
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12 Dec 1899 George F Grant of Boston )first black graduate of Harvard College, and a dentist) patents the wooden golf tee
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12 Dec 1900 National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing, " composed
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12 Dec 1900 National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing" is composed
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12 Dec 1901 Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
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12 Dec 1901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
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12 Dec 1903 Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
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12 Dec 1904 CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna, " premieres in New York City
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12 Dec 1904 CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna" premieres in New York NY
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12 Dec 1906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce
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12 Dec 1911 Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
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12 Dec 1911 King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India.
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12 Dec 1912 R Friml / O Harbachs musical "Firefly, " premieres in New York City
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12 Dec 1913 "Mona Lisa, " stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
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12 Dec 1913 "Mona Lisa", recovered after being stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911
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12 Dec 1913 Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
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12 Dec 1915 President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
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12 Dec 1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J.1) test flown at Dessau Germany
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12 Dec 1915 Aristide Briand forms French war government
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12 Dec 1915 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
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12 Dec 1916 Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
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12 Dec 1917 French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
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12 Dec 1917 In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
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12 Dec 1917 Worst train disaster (derailment near mouth of Mount Cenis tunnel) ever (Modane France-543 French troops killed)
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12 Dec 1917 Reverend Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town outside Omaha NE
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12 Dec 1918 The Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
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12 Dec 1920 Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse, " premieres in Paris
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12 Dec 1925 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel, " opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
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12 Dec 1925 The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Iran, starting the Pahlavi dynasty.
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12 Dec 1925 Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over
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12 Dec 1925 Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia
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12 Dec 1926 Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Pianoconcert
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12 Dec 1928 Nichols / Brownes "Wings over Europe, " premieres in New York City
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12 Dec 1930 Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
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12 Dec 1930 Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
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12 Dec 1930 Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book, when a ball bounces into stands now a double, not a homerun
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12 Dec 1930 Start of the 1st Australia vs West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
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12 Dec 1931 Japanese Government of Imukai forms
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12 Dec 1932 S N Behrmans "Biography, " premieres in New York City
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12 Dec 1932 S N Behrmans "Biography" premieres in New York NY
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12 Dec 1932 USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
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12 Dec 1935 Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
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12 Dec 1936 Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
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12 Dec 1936 Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
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12 Dec 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident – Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze river in China.
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12 Dec 1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2 million in reparations)
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12 Dec 1937 NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of New York
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12 Dec 1937 Washington Redskins win NFL championship
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12 Dec 1939 Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
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12 Dec 1939 Winter War: Battle of Tolvajärvi – Finnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict.
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12 Dec 1939 HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.
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12 Dec 1939 Soviet prison ship Indigirka, carrying 2,500 prisoners capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 2,470 die
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12 Dec 1940 World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, as a result of a German air raid.
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12 Dec 1940 British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
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12 Dec 1941 World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
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12 Dec 1941 World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
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12 Dec 1941 World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
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12 Dec 1941 Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery
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12 Dec 1941 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
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12 Dec 1941 European reservists on Java mobilizes
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12 Dec 1941 Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
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12 Dec 1942 World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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12 Dec 1942 A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
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12 Dec 1942 German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
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12 Dec 1945 Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
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12 Dec 1946 A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement, killing 37 people.
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12 Dec 1946 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
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12 Dec 1946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
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12 Dec 1946 Tide detergent introduced
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12 Dec 1947 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
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12 Dec 1948 Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali massacre – 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaya allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
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12 Dec 1949 American League votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
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12 Dec 1950 Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
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12 Dec 1950 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
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12 Dec 1950 Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule
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12 Dec 1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
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12 Dec 1952 Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
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12 Dec 1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
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12 Dec 1955 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell
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12 Dec 1956 Beginning of the Irish Republican Army's "Border Campaign".
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12 Dec 1957 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
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12 Dec 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife, Jane Mitcham
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12 Dec 1957 Major Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
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12 Dec 1958 Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs. West Indies at Kanpur
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12 Dec 1958 Guinea joins the United Nations.
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12 Dec 1958 Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
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12 Dec 1959 UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
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12 Dec 1961 Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany, Georgia
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12 Dec 1961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
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12 Dec 1963 Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from the UK
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12 Dec 1963 Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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12 Dec 1963 Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
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12 Dec 1963 Argentina asks for extradition of ex-President Peron
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12 Dec 1964 Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)
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12 Dec 1964 Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
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12 Dec 1964 Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot, "The Cage" (Menagerie)
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12 Dec 1964 Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
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12 Dec 1965 Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St. and Amsterdam Ave New York City
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12 Dec 1965 Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
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12 Dec 1965 Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales)
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12 Dec 1965 Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155
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12 Dec 1966 US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
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12 Dec 1967 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
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12 Dec 1968 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus" - it never airs
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12 Dec 1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
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12 Dec 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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12 Dec 1969 "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres
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12 Dec 1969 Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
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12 Dec 1969 "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Streisand premieres
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12 Dec 1969 Bill Toomey (track and field) achieves world record-score (8417 points)
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12 Dec 1969 Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed
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12 Dec 1970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
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12 Dec 1970 Polish government proclaims price rise
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12 Dec 1970 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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12 Dec 1973 San Diego files anti-trust against National League (stopping Padres move to DC)
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12 Dec 1973 Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 & $10 silver coins)
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12 Dec 1975 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
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12 Dec 1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford
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12 Dec 1976 QB Joe Namath's last game as a New York Jet
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12 Dec 1977 Yankees purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
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12 Dec 1979 Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung-hee.
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12 Dec 1979 President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
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12 Dec 1979 The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.
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12 Dec 1979 Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
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12 Dec 1979 Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe
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12 Dec 1980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
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12 Dec 1981 "1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 37 performances
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12 Dec 1981 Gambia and Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in February 1982
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12 Dec 1981 Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
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12 Dec 1982 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 performances
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12 Dec 1982 Joanne Carner / John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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12 Dec 1982 $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in New York NY
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12 Dec 1982 57th Australian Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova (63 26 63)
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12 Dec 1983 The Australian Labor government led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Treasurer Paul Keating floats the Australian dollar.
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12 Dec 1983 A truck bomb explodes at the US Embassy in Kuwait
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12 Dec 1984 Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit.
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12 Dec 1985 248 US soldiers and 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
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12 Dec 1985 DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
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12 Dec 1985 Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
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12 Dec 1985 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air DC-8 charter crash (Gander, Newfoundland)
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12 Dec 1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-207
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12 Dec 1986 Microlite aircraft circles world non-stop
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12 Dec 1986 David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 vs England at Adelaide
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12 Dec 1986 James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champion Tim Witherspoon at Madison Square Garden
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12 Dec 1986 Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
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12 Dec 1986 South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
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12 Dec 1987 Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
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12 Dec 1987 Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
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12 Dec 1987 Oklahoma sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
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12 Dec 1988 New York City Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
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12 Dec 1988 The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
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12 Dec 1988 Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
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12 Dec 1988 3 trains collide in London, 40 die
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12 Dec 1988 PLO leader Yasser Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist
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12 Dec 1990 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
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12 Dec 1990 US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
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12 Dec 1991 The Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR.
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12 Dec 1991 Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
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12 Dec 1991 New Jersey Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
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12 Dec 1991 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
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12 Dec 1991 Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community
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12 Dec 1991 Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
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12 Dec 1992 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami Florida (QB)
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12 Dec 1992 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
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12 Dec 1992 Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada
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12 Dec 1992 Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
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12 Dec 1992 New York Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
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12 Dec 1993 "Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances
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12 Dec 1993 "Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances
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12 Dec 1993 Ultra-Nationalists make strong gains in Russian elections
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12 Dec 1993 WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in New York NY
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12 Dec 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of US Congress
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12 Dec 1995 Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)
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12 Dec 1995 CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31
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12 Dec 1995 NBA referees return to work after striking
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12 Dec 1996 Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since November 22, Moises Alou
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12 Dec 1996 Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
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12 Dec 1997 Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris
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12 Dec 1997 TWA 800 hearings end
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12 Dec 1997 Federal judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him
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12 Dec 1997 Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
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12 Dec 1997 Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH
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12 Dec 1997 Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract
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12 Dec 1997 SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Florida, freeing 2 young hostages
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12 Dec 1997 TWA 800 hearings end in Baltimore MD
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12 Dec 2000 The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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12 Dec 2001 Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng to the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps.
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12 Dec 2012 North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.
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12 Dec 2012 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief took place at Madison Square Garden and was broadcast on 20 international television networks to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
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