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December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 13 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 1118 ...
On December 18, four days after the Electoral College voted, Trump called for supporters to attend a rally before the January 6 Congressional vote count, writing on Twitter, "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!".
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December ...
18 December 18, 1969 (Thursday) 19 December 19, 1969 ... it was an attempt at a "Woodstock West" and was better known for the four deaths that happened during the day
December 11, 1972 (Monday) People from Earth landed on the Moon for the sixth and last time, as the Apollo 17 lunar module Challenger touched down at 1954 UTC (1:54 pm Houston time) at the Taurus–Littrow crater. [31][32] Soviet and Chinese soldiers clashed at the border, with several of the Soviet soldiers being killed.
December 14, 1944 (Thursday) The British escort destroyer Aldenham was sunk by a naval mine in the Adriatic Sea off Pag. Aldenham was the last Royal Navy destroyer lost in World War II. The Palawan massacre occurred in the Philippines when 150 Allied prisoners of war were murdered by the Japanese during an air raid.
October 8 – WMAQ-TV first airs in Chicago. October 11 – The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves to win the World Series, 4 games to 2. October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded. October 26 – Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
December 1, 1967 (Friday) Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox gave an early release to 547 state prisoners — almost seven percent— so that the inmates could be with their families in time for Christmas. At the time, the number of adults and juveniles behind bars in the state was less than 8,000 and the 547 given the early reprieve had good ...