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This is a list of selected December 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
1870 map of the Trucial Coast 1838 Map of Oman, showing the peninsula that would become, in 1971, the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates (the UAE or the Emirates) is a country in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula located on the southeastern coast of the Persian Gulf and the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Oman.
December 19 and 21, 1930: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dismisses Alexei Rykov (both on far left) from positions as Soviet Premier and Communist Party Politburo member December 19, 1930: Stalin appoints Vyacheslav Molotov as new Soviet Premier December 26, 1930: Prince Louis II declares dictatorship in Principality of Monaco
The European forts and settlements in the Delaware River Valley, then known as New Sweden, c. 1650 A 1683 map of Philadelphia, which is believed to be the first city map created Philadelphia's seal in 1683 Penn's Treaty with the Indians, a 1772 portrait by Benjamin West now on display above the north door of the United States Capitol rotunda
18 December 18, 1932 (Sunday) 19 December 19, 1932 (Monday) 20 December 20, 1932 (Tuesday) ... This is considered the first major indoor football game in history.
December 21, 1929: Personality cult of Joseph Stalin booms on his 50th birthday (shown, a 1938 example) December 24, 1929: Electrical fire destroys the West Wing of the White House, rebuilding planned. The following events occurred in December 1929:
The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. [1] [2] Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world.
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