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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 ...
The Eighteenth Amendment ( Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on ...
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.
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. The holiday was established by a 21 June 2007 decree of the then Crown Prince and ...
1831 ( MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1831st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 831st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1830s decade.
1812 ( MDCCCXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1812th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 812th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1810s decade.
November 18 – Aleijadinho, Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (b. 1730 or 1738) November 23 – Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (b. 1744) December 2 – Marquis de Sade, French writer for whom sadism is named (b. 1740) December 13 – Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
December 30, 1945 (Sunday) 2,600 U.S.-trained Dutch troops landed at Batavia, Jakarta Indonesia to help reimpose colonial rule. [3] Adolf Hitler's will and marriage certificate were announced as having been discovered in Tegernsee near Munich. [29] The Battle of Tangtou–Guocun in China ended in communist victory.