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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 ...
Notes. Mohamed Bouazizi appears on December 17, so Tunisian revolution should not appear in the same year. December 18: National Day in Qatar ( 1878 ) Atlas rocket carrying SCORE. 1622 – Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi.
31. 2024. December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December, from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. December’s name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, which ...
Sam Andrew (December 18, 1941 –February 12, 2015), American singer and songwriter for Big Brother and the Holding Company, would have turned 83 this year. Chas Chandler (December 18, 1938 –July 17, 1996), Brit bassist for The Animals, would have turned 86 this year. Joel Hirschhorn (December 18, 1938 –September 18, 2005), American ...
It premiered at St. George's Hall in London on 18 December 1867 under the management of Thomas German Reed for a run of 72 performances; this poster was produced to advertise the original production. There were brief revivals in Manchester in 1874 and the United States in 1880.
Current events/2003 December 18. NASA announces that the new name for the "Space Infrared Telescope Facility" will be the Spitzer Space Telescope (after the late Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr. ). This coincides with the release of the telescope's first images, which show the glowing stars of the Elephant's Trunk nebula, the dusty arms of the Messier 81 ...
Mount Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea.It is about 30 kilometres (20 mi) wide with parasitic vents and a caldera up to 8 kilometres (5 mi) wide.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match of the 2014 World Cup.The match between Germany and Argentina was played at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 13 July 2014.