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The drilling rig Kolskaya with 76 people on board overturns in the Sea of Okhotsk off the coast of Sakhalin in the Russian Far East resulting in four deaths and fifty people missing. (RT) (BBC) (VoA) The Philippines Red Cross estimates that the death toll from the floods caused by Tropical Storm Washi has risen to 521. (AP via Google News)
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December 2, 1899 (Saturday) Philippine–American War – Battle of Tirad Pass ("The Filipino Thermopylae"): General Gregorio del Pilar and his troops are able to guard the retreat of Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo, before being wiped out. During the new moon, a near-grand conjunction of the classical planets and several binocular Solar ...
Disasters and accidents Four people are killed and seven injured after an apartment block collapses in the center of Palermo in Italy. (Reuters) [permanent dead link] A large, 33.5- ton aquarium bursts in a busy shopping center on the Nanjing Road pedestrian mall in Shanghai, China, injuring 15 people, including customers and shop staff. (East Day) (The Inquisitr) (RT) Law and crime Following ...
Business and economy Tolls are scrapped for the Severn crossing bridges connecting England and South Wales, making travel across the River Severn free for all commuters for the first time in 800 years. (BBC) Politics and elections Politics of Poland Polish President Andrzej Duda signs into law the bill, passed by the Parliament of Poland three weeks ago, reinstating the Supreme Court judges ...
December (from Latin decem, "ten") or mensis December was originally the tenth month of the Roman calendar, following November (novem, "nine") and preceding Ianuarius. It had 29 days. It had 29 days. When the calendar was reformed to create a 12-month year starting in Ianuarius, December became the twelfth month, but retained its name, as did ...
The Eighteenth Amendment ( Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on ...
Current events/2008 December 17. Ruins of an entire ancient city belonging to the Wari culture are discovered in northern Peru. (BBC) South Korean actress Ok So-ri is given an eight-month suspended prison sentence for adultery after the Constitutional Court refused to strike down a law criminalizing adultery. (BBC)