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The 18th Infantry Regiment ("Vanguards") [1] is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment currently exists with one active battalion, under the U.S. Army Regimental System; regimental designation is used only for historical tradition, and there is no active regimental headquarters.
Three retroactive recipients for 1943 were also named, in accordance with the Nobel Foundation's statutes allowing the awards to be reserved for one year. [18] They were Otto Stern of the United States for Physics, George de Hevesy (Germany) for Chemistry and Carl Peter Henrik Dam (Denmark) and Edward Adelbert Doisy (United States) for ...
On December 18–20, 1957, a significant tornado outbreak sequence affected the southern Midwest and the South of the contiguous United States.The outbreak sequence began on the afternoon of December 18, when a low-pressure area approached the southern portions of Missouri and Illinois.
December 22: December solstice (03:28 UTC, 2023); Yule begins; Dongzhi Festival in China (2023) Aerial view of the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill 856 – An earthquake registering an estimated 7.9 M s struck the eastern Alborz mountains in Persia, causing an estimated 200,000 deaths.
December 26, 1943: 1,907 German sailors drown in the sinking of Scharnhorst December 2, 1943: Unintended release of mustard gas kills 83 bystanders December 25, 1943: 64 Lithuanian Jews tunnel out of Nazi "Ninth Fort" prison December 4, 1943: WPA, the last Great Depression relief program ends. The following events occurred in December 1943:
[18] 2021 – A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. [19]
Arts and culture. Strictly Come Dancing. EastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis becomes the first deaf person to win the BBC show after she and her professional partner Giovanni Pernice beat the show's first male same-sex couple containing TV chef John Whaite and his professional partner Johannes Radebe in the final.
Redesignated: 18th Pursuit Group (Interceptor) on 6 December 1939 Redesignated: 18th Fighter Group on 15 May 1942 Redesignated: 18th Fighter Group (Single Engine) on 15 April 1944 Redesignated: 18th Fighter Group, Two Engine, on 15 June 1944 Redesignated: 18th Fighter Group, late 1944 Redesignated: 18th Fighter-Bomber Group on 20 January 1950