Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Current events/2008 December 17. Ruins of an entire ancient city belonging to the Wari culture are discovered in northern Peru. (BBC) South Korean actress Ok So-ri is given an eight-month suspended prison sentence for adultery after the Constitutional Court refused to strike down a law criminalizing adultery. (BBC)
Business and economy Target Corporation and the United States Secret Service say that more than 40 million credit and debit cards used in Target stores may have been compromised due to a data breach. (CNN) Disasters and accidents Part of the ornate ceiling of the Apollo Theatre in London collapses during a performance, injuring at least 81 people in the audience. (CNN) Seats at a football ...
Disasters At least 30 people drown after a boat capsizes in northeastern Bangladesh. (BBC) (Times of India) A Chinese fishing boat capsizes during a scuffle with a South Korean coastguard ship, leaving one dead and two missing. (AP) (Channel News Asia) Roads, railways and airports across the United Kingdom are severely affected by further heavy snowfall. Severe weather warnings have been ...
1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England. Portal:Religion/On this day/December 20. December 20: 1192 - Richard the Lion-Heart was captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the crusade.
Current events/2023 December 19. The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to start the withdrawal of the United Nations peacekeeping force from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The withdrawal will start in South Kivu in eastern Congo, gradually handing over its responsibilities to the Congolese government. (AP)
December 4, 1938 (Sunday) Anti-Italian riots broke out in Tunis over Italy's recent demand that France hand over Tunisia. Windows of an Italian tourist office, newspaper and bookstore were smashed, but police reinforcements prevented any such attack on the Italian consulate. 15 arrests were made.
Nazi Germany placed an embargo on its own currency effective December 6. Foreign tourists were limited to bringing no more than 30 marks' worth of bank notes into the country at a time. Italian children had a three-hour school day (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) in order to save coal.
Business and economy China launches a crackdown against the internet currency BitCoin, plunging its value by 35%. (Bloomberg) Mega Millions lottery: At least two winners in the US$636 million jackpot are thought to have won, with one in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and another in San Jose, California. (Houston Chronicle) International Relations The United Nations condemns Syria, Iran, and North ...