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December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... [18] 1859 – Paul César Helleu, French painter and illustrator (d. 1927)
December 2011 was the twelfth and final month of that common year. The month, which began on a Thursday, ended on a Saturday after 31 days. Portal:Current events. This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from December 2011.
On the same day, a collision between a train and a bus at a railroad crossing on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro killed 18 people and injured 18 others. [ 289 ] In Managua , Nicaragua, an FSLN commando unit, headed by Edén Pastora , burst into the house of José María Castillo, former president of the Banco Central , and took his guests ...
By about 5:30 p.m. on May 18, the vertical ash column declined in stature, and less-severe outbursts continued through the night and for the next several days. The St. Helens May 18 eruption released 24 megatons of thermal energy [6] [40] and ejected more than 0.67 cubic miles (2.79 km 3) of material. [6]
December 11–15 – Five hundred protesters arrested in Albany, Georgia. December 15 – King arrives in Albany, Georgia in response to a call from W. G. Anderson, the leader of the Albany Movement to desegregate public facilities. [63] December 16 – Dr. King is arrested at an Albany, Georgia demonstration.
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.
For example, if the 18th is a Wednesday, public holidays are from Wednesday the 18th to Friday the 20th and celebrations begin the afternoon of Tuesday the 17th and continue until Sunday the 22nd. It is held close to the spring equinox of the Southern Hemisphere so it doubles as a spring festival.
December 18. Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902) Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926) December 20 – Roy O. Disney, American studio executive (b. 1893) December 22 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (b. 1913) December 24 – Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (b. 1924) December 26 – Robert Lowery, American actor (b. 1913)