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December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) ... Neil Fingleton, English actor and basketball player, one of the tallest 25 men in the world (d. 2017)
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.
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 ...
7 – Michael Sam (1990–), American football player, first publicly gay player drafted by the NFL. 8 – Jack Andraka (1997–), American inventor, scientist, and cancer researcher. 8 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864–1892), English royalty. 8 – Winnaretta Singer (1865–1943), American heiress.
This is a list of top international male singles tennis players, both past and present. It includes players who have met one or more of the following criteria in singles: Officially ranked among the top 25 players by the Association of Tennis Professionals (since 1973) Ranked among the top 10 by an expert (e.g. A. Wallis Myers) before 1973.
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 ...
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most important stand-up comedians of all time.
Sam Andrew (December 18, 1941 –February 12, 2015), American singer and songwriter for Big Brother and the Holding Company, would have turned 83 this year. Chas Chandler (December 18, 1938 –July 17, 1996), Brit bassist for The Animals, would have turned 86 this year. Joel Hirschhorn (December 18, 1938 –September 18, 2005), American ...