12 December

The 12t o December is the 346t day o the year (347t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 19 days bidin.

 Events 
 1787 - Pennsylvanie becomes the 2nt state tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
 1812 - The French invasion o Roushie ends.
 1866 - The Oaks Splosion in Wast Yorkshire, Ingland, kills 360 miners an rescuers.
 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal.
 1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as caipital o Indie.
 1911 - George V is crouned Emperor o Indie.
 1913 - Leonardo da Vinci's pentin Mona Lisa, which wis stolen frae the Louvre in Paris in 1911, is foond in Florence, Italy.
 1941 - Warld War II: The Unitit Kinrick declares war on Bulgarie.
 1958 - Guinea jyns the Unitit Naitions.
 1963 - Kenyae gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
 1964 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes the 1st Preses o Kenyae.
 1970 - NASA launches the "Uhuru" X-Ray satellite frae Kenyae.
 1991 - Abuja becomes the caipital ceety o Nigerie.
 1991 - Roushie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
 1992 - A yirdquauk off Flores Island, Indonesie, kills 2,500 fowk.
 2000 - Ethiopie an Eritrea end their border war.
 2003 - Paul Martin becomes Prime meenister o Canadae.
 2015 - Climate chynge talks in Paris result in an agreement on carbon-dioxide emissions.
 2016 - Bill English replaces John Key as Prime meenister o New Zealand.
 2019 - Abdelmadjid Tebboune is electit Preses o Algerie.
 2019 - 2019 Unitit Kinrick general election:
Boris Johnson's Conservative Pairty, despite losin seats in Scotland, wins its biggest majority syne 1987, winnin a total o 365 seats, incluidin mony in Labour Pairty stranghaulds in Northren an Central Ingland an pairts o Wales. Labour suffers its heaviest defeat syne 1935.
The Scots Naitional Pairty wins maist o the Scots seats, increasin its total frae 35 tae 48 seats, takkin seats aff Labour, the Conservatives an Leeberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit cases warldwide gets tae 70 million.
 2020 - Bhutan an Israel normalise diplomatic relations.

 Births 
 1574 - Anne o Denmark, Queen Consort o Scots (d. 1619)
 1731 - Erasmus Darwin, Inglis polymath (d. 1802)
 1766 - Nikolay Karamzin, Roushie writer (d. 1826)
 1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
 1863 - Edvard Munch, Norse penter (d. 1944)
 1866 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (d. 1919)
 1915 - Frank Sinatra, American sangster an actor (d. 1998)
 1923 - Bob Barker, American enterteener
 1924 - Ed Koch, 105t Mayor o New York Ceety (d. 2013)
 1928 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer (d. 2008)
 1940 - Dionne Warwick, American sangster
 1945 - Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaican politeecian
 1946 - Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian racin driver
 1948 - Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Preses o Portugal
 1949 - Marc Ravalomanana, umwhile Preses o Madagascar
 1949 - Bill Nighy, Inglis actor
 1961 - Daniel O'Donnell, Erse sangster
 1962 - Tracy Austin, American tennis player
 1970 - Jennifer Connelly, American actress
 1975 - Mayim Bialik, American actress
 1984 - Daniel Agger, Dens fitbawer
 1990 - Victor Moses, Nigerie fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
 1842 - Robert Haldane, Scots kirkman; b. 1764
 1913 - Menelik II, Emperor o Ethiopie (b. 1844)
 1963 - Theodor Heuss, 1st Preses o the Federal Republic o Germany (b. 1884)
 2003 - Heydar Aliyev, Preses o Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
 2008 - Tassos Papadopoulos, Preses o Cyprus (b. 1934)
 2020 - John le Carré, Inglis novelist (b. 1931)
 2020 - Charley Pride, American country sangster (b. 1934)
 2020 - Jack Steinberger, German-American physicist (b. 1921)

 Halidays 
 Naitional Day o Kenyae
 Constitution Day (Roushie)
 Kanji Day (Japan)
 Neutrality Day (Turkmenistan)

 Referances leet 
Category:Days o the year