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18 December 18, 1916 (Monday) 19 December 19, 1916 (Tuesday) 20 December 20, 1916 (Wednesday) ... [18] The last recorded stagecoach robbery occurred in Jarbidge, ...
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
[18] Battle of Qurna — The British Indian Army and forces with the Ottoman Empire clashed at the town of Qurna northwest of Basra, Iraq which had been captured by the British in November. Despite making steady advances on open ground, British soldiers could not find a suitable crossing at the Tigris river and so delayed in assaulting the town ...
Prosecutors in Santa Barbara, California, announce that they will file charges against the singer Michael Jackson on December 18 or 19. A major expansion of British airports is announced by the UK government, with Stansted, Heathrow and Birmingham set to gain extra runways.
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship ...
18: The light cruiser HMS Penelope is torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Anzio with a loss of 415 crew. [3]: American naval air raid takes place on the Truk islands, a major Japanese naval base, but they will be one of the bypassed fortresses of the Japanese outer defence ring. 19: Leipzig, Germany is bombed for two straight nights.
18 December 18, 1941 (Thursday) 19 December 19, 1941 (Friday) 20 December 20, 1941 (Saturday) 21 December 21, 1941 (Sunday) 22 December 22, 1941 (Monday)
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