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December 15 – Hannah Adams, American author (b. 1755) December 18 – Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (b. 1756) December 23 – Emilia Plater, Polish heroine (b. 1806) December 26. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet (b. 1809) Stephen Girard, French-American banker (b. 1750)
December 18 In the wake of deadly riots in January over control of the Panama Canal , the U.S. offers to negotiate a new canal treaty. The deadly Christmas flood of 1964 begins, affecting the United States' Pacific Northwest and some of Northern California.
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 first apparition occurred on the morning of Saturday, December 9, 1531 (Julian calendar, which is December 19 on the (proleptic) Gregorian calendar in present use). Juan Diego experienced a vision of a young woman at a place called the Hill of Tepeyac , which later became part of Villa de Guadalupe , in a suburb of Mexico City .
December 27 – Israel invades the Gaza Strip, in response to rockets being fired into Israeli territory by Hamas, and due to weapons being smuggled into the area. [80] [81] [82] December 31 – An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end of the year. The last time this occurred was in 2005.
December 18, 1968 (Wednesday) [ edit ] U.S. President Lyndon Johnson became the latest of thousands of Americans to be hospitalized because of the 1968 flu pandemic , and was admitted to the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland; on the same day, U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey canceled planned speaking engagements after contracting the Hong ...
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 ...
16 December 1944: V Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group. 20 December 1944: Attached, with the entire First Army, to the British 21st Army Group. 26 January 1945: XVIII Airborne Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group. 12 February 1945: III Corps. 8 March 1945: VII Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group. 27 April 1945: VIII Corps.