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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 ...
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December ...
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.
31. 2024. December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December, from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. December’s name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, which ...
18 December 2024. (2024-12-18) Frequency. Annually. Qatar National Day (Arabic: اليوم الوطني لقطر, romanized: Al-Yawm al-Waṭani li-Qaṭar) is a national commemoration of Qatar 's unification in 1878. It is celebrated annually on 18 December. The holiday was established by a 21 June 2007 decree of the then Crown Prince and Heir ...
December 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) December 17 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 19. All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 31 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For December 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 5 .
Operation Linebacker II. Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from December 18 to December 29, 1972, during the Vietnam War. More than 20,000 tons of ordnance was dropped on military and industrial areas in Hanoi ...
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 ...