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December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) ... Historical Events on December 18 This page was last edited on 17 August 2024, at 18:00 (UTC ...
December 1, 1974 (Sunday) The TWA Flight 514 accident aircraft. All 92 people aboard TWA Flight 514 were killed when the Boeing 727 flew into the west side of Mount Weather, near Upperville, Virginia. The jet had departed from Columbus, Ohio and was approaching Dulles International Airport at Washington, D.C., in bad weather.
Selected anniversaries/December. 1828 – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle (pictured) deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars. 1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal ...
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.
December 1856 events (1 C, 2 P) December 1857 events (1 C, 4 P) December 1859 events (1 C, 7 P) December 1860 events (4 C, 8 P) December 1861 events (1 C, 15 P) December 1862 events (2 C, 23 P) December 1863 events (1 C, 11 P) December 1864 events (1 C, 26 P) December 1865 events (3 C, 2 P)
December 18, 1988 (Sunday) In Soweto, South Africa, Jerry Richardson, the coach of the Mandela United Football Club (MUFC), stabbed and killed Koekie Zwane (real name Pricilla Mosoeu), girlfriend of a member of the football club. MUFC members may have assisted Richardson in the killing.
Current events/2021 December 18. EastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis becomes the first deaf person to win the BBC show after she and her professional partner Giovanni Pernice beat the show's first male same-sex couple containing TV chef John Whaite and his professional partner Johannes Radebe in the final. (BBC News)
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December ...