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December 29, 1977 (Thursday) All 24 people aboard a SAN Ecuador airliner were killed when the Vickers 764D Viscount crashed into a hillside while en route from Guayaquil to Cuenca. [86] U.S. President Carter arrived in the Communist nation of Poland, coming to Warsaw as the first stop in a 9-day tour of six nations.
Week. A week is a unit of time equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for short cycles of days in most parts of the world. The days are often used to indicate common work days and rest days, as well as days of worship. Weeks are often mapped against yearly calendars, but are typically not the basis for them, as weeks are not ...
December 18, 1963 (Wednesday) About 500 African students, mostly from Ghana in the Soviet Union organized a protest in Moscow, marching through Red Square and even scuffling with police, after the December 13 death of a 29-year-old Ghanaian medical student, Edmund Assare-Addo. It was the first known instance of foreign students marching in a ...
Initial attacks. (7 October – 27 October 2023) Invasion of the Gaza Strip. (28 October – 23 November 2023) First ceasefire. (24 November 2023 – 11 January 2024) Yemen airstrikes. (12 January 2024 – 6 May 2024) Rafah offensive.
2023 Jishishan earthquake. At least 127 people are killed and over 720 others are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Jishishan, Gansu, China. (AFP via CNA) At least 13 people are killed and at least 88 are injured by an explosion at an oil terminal in Conakry, Guinea. (Reuters)
Wright Brothers Day (December 17) is a United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code, and commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled airplane, the Wright Flyer , that were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk , North Carolina . [1]
December 14, 1959: First manned flight above 100,000 feet December 4, 1959: U.S. rhesus monkey Sam launched into mesosphere December 15, 1959: First manned flight of more than 1,500 mph December 21, 1959: The last royal wedding in Iran takes place. The following events occurred in December 1959:
Disasters and accidents Four people are killed and seven injured after an apartment block collapses in the center of Palermo in Italy. (Reuters) [permanent dead link] A large, 33.5- ton aquarium bursts in a busy shopping center on the Nanjing Road pedestrian mall in Shanghai, China, injuring 15 people, including customers and shop staff. (East Day) (The Inquisitr) (RT) Law and crime Following ...