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December 18 is the 352nd day of the year ... born and raised in the United States. ... with over 400,000 people displaced.
Notes. Mohamed Bouazizi appears on December 17, so Tunisian revolution should not appear in the same year. December 18: National Day in Qatar ( 1878 ) Atlas rocket carrying SCORE. 1622 – Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi.
Nurse, humanitarian, founder and first president of the American Red Cross. Relatives. Elvira Stone (cousin) Signature. Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [g] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian-born Soviet politician and revolutionary who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 ...
2001 - Death of Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901) December 6: 1586 - Birth of Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) 1771 - Death of Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682) 1778 - Birth of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) 1855 - Death of William John Swainson, English naturalist ...
December 1, 1958 (Monday) A fire killed 92 students and three teachers at the Our Lady of the Angels parochial school in Chicago. The fire started in a cardboard trash barrel in a stairway, 40 minutes before classes were to end for the day. Because the school was filled with combustible materials and fire doors and alarms were inadequate, the ...
December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 12 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18.