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December 18. 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.
The message recorded of Eisenhower.. SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite.Launched aboard an American Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided the second test of a communications relay system in space (the first having been provided by the USAF/NASA's Pioneer 1), [3] the first broadcast of a human voice ...
Japan launched its invasion of British Malaya, at Kota Bharu, at 7:00 am Hawaiian Time (1:00 am 8 December Malaya time [17]). [18] The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began at 7:55 a.m. Hawaiian Time. [19] 21 American ships and over 300 aircraft were sunk, destroyed or damaged, and 2,403 Americans were killed. Japan lost 29 planes in ...
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.
September 18. AD 96 – Nerva, the first of the " Five Good Emperors " of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian. 1809 – The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire. 1875 – The Indianola hurricane dissipated over ...
[18] 1929 – Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen. [19] 1929 – A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. [20] 1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace. [21] 1941 – World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces. [22]
Current events/2021 December 18. 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. (BBC News)
December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Fatherland's Heroes Day (Russia) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tanganyika from Britain in 1961. (Tanzania) International Anti-Corruption Day (United Nations) [59] National Heroes Day, formerly V.C. Bird Day.