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1867 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people. [5] 1878 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar. 1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933—the only constitutional amendment in American history to be repealed.
December 18: Richard Nixon announces the beginning of a massive bombing campaign in North Vietnam. 1973. January 27: the Paris Peace Accords end American involvement in the Vietnam War. Congress cuts off funds for the continued bombing of Indochina.
December 18, 1944 (Monday) Typhoon Cobra struck the United States Pacific Fleet and did severe damage to Task Force 38 . Destroyers Hull , Monaghan and Spence all foundered in the storm.
December 18, 2022 (Sunday) edit. history. watch. Armed conflicts and attacks. Islamic State insurgency in Iraq. 2022 Kirkuk bombing. Nine police officers are killed and two others are injured when a convoy hits a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Al Jazeera)
December 18, 1980 (Thursday) The hunger strike by seven inmates at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison came to an end after more than seven weeks. The decision was made by the prisoners near Ulster to end the strike, which began on October 27, after two of the men fasting were judged by physicians to have less than 24 hours to live.
December 18, 1947 (Thursday) The Al-Khisas raid took place in Palestine. Pope Pius XII published the encyclical Optatissima pax , prescribing public prayers for social and world peace.
December 18, 1918 (Wednesday) Estonian War of Independence – The Latvian Riflemen allied with the Red Army captured Valga, Estonia. [66] Armeno-Georgian War – An encircled Georgian unit defending the retreating flank at Ayrum, Georgia broke out and escaped, but at a cost of 560 casualties.
December 18, 1917 (Tuesday) The Armistice of Erzincan was signed between the Ottoman Empire and states under Transcaucasian Commissariat (a government body created following the October Revolution ) which temporarily ended fighting on the Caucasian and Persian Fronts until February 12, 1918.
Disasters. Nine people die following an explosion in a coal mine in Binzhou City in China 's Hunan Province. (Xinhua) 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)