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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 ...
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 1, 1961 (Friday) The U.S. Department of Defense began the distribution of a unique black and yellow sign to mark each fallout shelter to be occupied in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States. According to a newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, that day, an elementary school serving the families of U.S. Army personnel at Fort ...
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 29, 1946 (Sunday) The hibernating bird. Ornithologist Edmund Jaeger discovered that the common poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) hibernates in the winter, the only species of bird to do so. Jaeger and two assistants found a poorwill in a crevice in the Chuckwalla Mountains of California.
December 22 – After 17 days of deadlock and 63 votes, Democrat Howell Cobb of Georgia is elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, by a plurality of 102 votes to 99 for the former Speaker, the Whig Party's Robert C. Winthrop of Massachusetts. Neither the Democrats nor the Whigs have a majority of the 230 seats in the ...
December 24, 1918 (Tuesday) Paramilitary troops fire a machine gun during an uprising in Berlin. Russian Civil War – The Siberian Army captured Perm, Russia, with the Red Army losing 18,000 casualties. [90] Estonian War of Independence – The Latvian Riflemen captured Tartu and Tapa, Estonia.
Get ready for all of the NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #190 on Monday, December 18, 2023. Connections game on Monday, December 18, 2023. The New York Times.