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Events Pre-1600. 1118 – The city of Zaragoza is conquered by king Alfonso I of Aragon from the Almoravid. 1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China. 1499 – A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
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)
history. watch. Armed conflicts and attacks. Islamic State insurgency in Iraq. 2022 Kirkuk bombing. Nine police officers are killed and two others are injured when a convoy hits a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Al Jazeera) Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Bannu counterterrorism centre siege.
At least 13 people are killed and at least 88 are injured by an explosion at an oil terminal in Conakry, Guinea. (Reuters) A major winter storm hits the Northeastern United States, killing four people and causing flash flood warnings, flight cancellations and school closures.
Each year on December 18, the United Nations, through the UN-related agency International Organization for Migration (IOM), uses International Migrants Day to highlight the contributions made by the roughly 272 million migrants, including more than 41 million internally displaced persons, [2] and the challenges they face.
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December 18: Richard Nixon announces the beginning of a massive bombing campaign in North Vietnam. 1973. January 27: the Paris Peace Accords end American involvement in the Vietnam War. Congress cuts off funds for the continued bombing of Indochina.
Date. 18 December. Next time. 18 December 2024. ( 2024-12-18) Frequency. Annually. Qatar National Day ( Arabic: اليوم الوطني لقطر, romanized : Al-Yawm al-Waṭani li-Qaṭar) is a national commemoration of Qatar 's unification in 1878. It is celebrated annually on 18 December.
December 18, 1974 (Wednesday) Michail Stasinopoulos of the New Democracy Party was elected President of Greece by vote of the Hellenic Parliament, receiving 206 votes from party members, sufficient for the 151 required for a majority. The Provisional IRA exploded two time bombs in the English city of Bristol. The first was placed in a sports ...
December 18, 2020 (Friday) edit. history. watch. Armed conflicts and attacks. War in Afghanistan. An explosion at a religious gathering during a Quran recitation ceremony in Ghazni, Afghanistan, has killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 20 others. (Al Jazeera) Somali Civil War.
Politics of Belgium. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel submits the resignation of his cabinet to King Philippe, after the biggest party in his coalition, the New Flemish Alliance, formally quit on 9 December over the government's support for the Global Compact for Migration. The King is withholding his decision.