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Flooding in Kota Tinggi, Malaysia -
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The first performance of The Nutcracker -
Larry Wall -
Demonstrators marching through Habib Bourguib Avenue in Tunis -
Various world leaders at the Copenhagen Summit -
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Republic Day in Niger (1958); | unreferenced section |
| 1271 – Mongol ruler Kublai Khan established the Yuan dynasty in present-day Mongolia and China. | refimprove section |
| 1854 – The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolished the seigneurial system of New France. | lead too long |
| 1892 – The first performance of the fairy-tale ballet The Nutcracker was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. | refimprove sections |
| 1912 – Amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson announced the discovery of fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human, known as Piltdown Man, which later turned out to be a hoax. | globalize |
| 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States began Operation Linebacker II against North Vietnam, the largest heavy bomber strikes launched by the U.S. Air Force since the end of World War II. | lots of {{cn}} tags (18) |
| 1987 – Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Perl via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup. | far too many CN tags for a good article |
| 1990 – The Migrant Workers Convention was signed at the United Nations enhancing the protection for migrant workers. | refimprove |
| 2005 – The most recent Chadian Civil War began when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launched an attack on Adré. | refimprove section |
| 2006 – The first of a series of floods struck Southeast Asia, which eventually killed 118 people and left over 400,000 others homeless. | empty section |
| 1916 – The French defeated German forces around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeastern France, ending the longest and one of the bloodiest battles in the First World War. | Date not cited |
Eligible
- 1499 – Muslims in Granada began a rebellion against their Castilian rulers in response to forced conversions to Catholicism.
- 1867 – In Angola, New York, the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed, plunged 40 feet (12 m) down a gully, and caught fire, resulting in approximately 49 deaths.
- 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat (pictured) set the first official land speed record, averaging 63.16 km/h (39.245 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) in Achères, France.
- 1913 – The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released.
- 1939 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe won a victory over the Royal Air Force in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, greatly influencing both sides' future aerial warfare strategy.
- 1966 – Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
- 1969 – On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.
- 1979 – Mohammad Mofatteh, an Iranian philosopher, was assassinated by the Furqan Group.
- 1996 – The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect.
- 2009 – The Copenhagen Summit on climate change ended with the drafting of the non-binding Copenhagen Accord.
- Born/died: | Charles Wesley |b|1707| James Watney |b|1800| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |d|1829| Henrietta Edwards |b|1849| Lionel Monckton |b|1861| Robert Moses |b|1888| Edwin Howard Armstrong |b|1890| Lotta Bromé |b|1964| Alexei Kosygin |d|1980| Tara Conner |b|1985|Kim Jong-hyun |d|2017|
Notes
- Mohamed Bouazizi appears on December 17, so Tunisian revolution should not appear in the same year
December 18: National Day in Qatar (1878)
- 1622 – Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi.
- 1932 – Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League.
- 1958 – The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite.
- 1963 – Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student Edmund Assare-Addo.
- 2017 – An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.
- Yaonian Yanmujin (d. 933)
- Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
- Ty Cobb (b. 1886)
- Keith Richards (b. 1943)