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)

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