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A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-188_Electra" id="mw3g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lockheed L-188 Electra">Lockheed L-188 Electra</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Trans_Service_Airlift_Electra_crash" id="mw3w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1995 Trans Service Airlift Electra crash">crashes</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamba,_Cuando_Cubango" id="mw4A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jamba, Cuando Cubango">Jamba, Cuando Cubango</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola" id="mw4Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Angola">Angola</a>, killing 141 people.<sup about="#mwt57" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_18#cite_note-10" id="mw4g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw4w">[10]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt54" class="citation web cs1" id="mwBr0">Ranter, Harro. <a class="external text" href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19951218-0" id="mwBr4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-188C Electra 9Q-CRR Cahungula, Lunda Norte"</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Aviation_Safety_Network" id="mwBr8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aviation Safety Network">Aviation Safety Network</a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050414111852/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19951218-0" id="mwBsA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 2005-04-14<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBsE">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBsI">2021-12-17</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt54" class="Z3988" id="mwBsM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=ASN+Aircraft+accident+Lockheed+L-188C+Electra+9Q-CRR+Cahungula%2C+Lunda+Norte&amp;rft.pub=Aviation+Safety+Network&amp;rft.aulast=Ranter&amp;rft.aufirst=Harro&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Faviation-safety.net%2Fdatabase%2Frecord.php%3Fid%3D19951218-0&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+18"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="NASA">NASA</a> launches into orbit the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(satellite)" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Terra (satellite)">Terra</a> platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Spaceborne_Thermal_Emission_and_Reflection_Radiometer" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer">ASTER</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clouds_and_the_Earth's_Radiant_Energy_System" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System">CERES</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-angle_Imaging_SpectroRadiometer" id="mw6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer">MISR</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderate-Resolution_Imaging_Spectroradiometer" id="mw7A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer">MODIS</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPITT" id="mw7Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="MOPITT">MOPITT</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_California_gubernatorial_recall_election" id="mw8Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2003 California gubernatorial recall election">California gubernatorial recall</a>: Then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_California" id="mw8g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Governor of California">Governor of California</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis" id="mw8w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gray Davis">Gray Davis</a> announces that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" id="mw9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="California">state</a> would face a record <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_budget_balance" id="mw9Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Government budget balance">budget deficit</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States dollar">$</a>35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadian_Civil_War_(2005–10)" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chadian Civil War (2005–10)">Chadian Civil War</a> begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan" id="mw-w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>, launch an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adré" id="mw_A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Adré">attack in Adré</a>.

The first of a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006–07_Malaysian_floods" id="mwAQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2006–07 Malaysian floods">series of floods</a> strikes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" id="mwAQE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> holds its <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_parliamentary_election,_2006" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Arab Emirates parliamentary election, 2006">first-ever elections</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellingley_Colliery" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kellingley Colliery">Kellingley Colliery</a>, the last deep <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mine" id="mwAQo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coal mine">coal mine</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a>, closes.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak_Cascades" id="mwAQ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Amtrak Cascades">Amtrak Cascades</a> passenger train 501, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment" id="mwARA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2017 Washington train derailment">derailed</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont,_Washington" id="mwARE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="DuPont, Washington">DuPont, Washington</a>, a city in United States near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia,_Washington" id="mwARI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Olympia, Washington">Olympia, Washington</a> killing six people, and injuring 70 others.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bolides" id="mwARY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of bolides">List of bolides</a>: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

The United States House of Representatives <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First impeachment of Donald Trump">impeaches Donald Trump for the first time</a>.<sup about="#mwt65" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_18#cite_note-11" id="mwARs" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwARw">[11]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt59" class="citation cs2" id="mwBsc"><a class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/live-blog/live-updates-house-votes-impeachment-president-trump-n1103576" id="mwBsg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Live Blog / Live updates: Trump impeached by the House on both articles"</a>, <i id="mwBsk">NBC News</i>, Dec 18, 2019</cite><span about="#mwt59" class="Z3988" id="mwBso" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=NBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Live+Blog+%2F+Live+updates%3A+Trump+impeached+by+the+House+on+both+articles&amp;rft.date=2019-12-18&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Ftrump-impeachment-inquiry%2Flive-blog%2Flive-updates-house-votes-impeachment-president-trump-n1103576&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+18"></span> <link about="#mwt62" data-mw='{"name":"templatestyles","attrs":{"src":"Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"},"body":{"extsrc":""},"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"citation","href":"./Template:Citation"},"params":{"website":{"wt":"Fox News"},"date":{"wt":"Dec 18, 2019"},"title":{"wt":"House impeaches Trump over Ukraine dealings, as Pelosi floats holding up Senate trial"},"author1":{"wt":"Gregg Re"},"author2":{"wt":"Marisa Schultz"},"url":{"wt":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/impeachment-debate-floor"}},"i":0}}]}' href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403" id="mwBss" rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion"/><cite about="#mwt62" class="citation cs2" id="CITEREFGregg_ReMarisa_Schultz2019">Gregg Re; Marisa Schultz (Dec 18, 2019), <a class="external text" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/impeachment-debate-floor" id="mwBsw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"House impeaches Trump over Ukraine dealings, as Pelosi floats holding up Senate trial"</a>, <i id="mwBs0">Fox News</i></cite><span about="#mwt62" class="Z3988" id="mwBs4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Fox+News&amp;rft.atitle=House+impeaches+Trump+over+Ukraine+dealings%2C+as+Pelosi+floats+holding+up+Senate+trial&amp;rft.date=2019-12-18&amp;rft.au=Gregg+Re&amp;rft.au=Marisa+Schultz&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fimpeachment-debate-floor&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+18"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina_national_football_team" id="mwASA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Argentina national football team">Argentina</a> win the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_final" id="mwASE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2022 FIFA World Cup final">2022 FIFA World Cup final</a>, defeating title holders <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_football_team" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="France national football team">France</a> 4–2 on penalties following a 3–3 draw after extra time.<sup about="#mwt70" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_18#cite_note-12" id="mwASM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASQ">[12]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt67" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFNicas2022">Nicas, Jack (2022-12-18). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/sports/soccer/argentina-celebration-win.html" id="mwBtI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Argentina Hits the Streets for Long-Awaited Celebration"</a>. <i id="mwBtM">The New York Times</i>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISSN_(identifier)" id="mwBtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a><span id="mwBtU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331" id="mwBtY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">0362-4331</a><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBtc">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBtg">2023-02-06</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt67" class="Z3988" id="mwBtk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Argentina+Hits+the+Streets+for+Long-Awaited+Celebration&amp;rft.date=2022-12-18&amp;rft.issn=0362-4331&amp;rft.aulast=Nicas&amp;rft.aufirst=Jack&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F12%2F18%2Fsports%2Fsoccer%2Fargentina-celebration-win.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+18"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Henry II of England">Henry II of England</a> is crowned at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>.<sup about="#mwt16" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-1" id="mwFQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFg">[1]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt13" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGreat_Britain._Public_Record_Office1869">Great Britain. Public Record Office (1869). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lCOtneGsnPkC&amp;pg=PR152-IA3" id="mwBoo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBos">Syllabus (in English) of the Documents Relating to England and Other Kingdoms: 1066-1377</i></a>. Longmans, Green. p.<span id="mwBow" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>152.</cite><span about="#mwt13" class="Z3988" id="mwBo0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Syllabus+%28in+English%29+of+the+Documents+Relating+to+England+and+Other+Kingdoms%3A+1066-1377&amp;rft.pages=152&amp;rft.pub=Longmans%2C+Green&amp;rft.date=1869&amp;rft.au=Great+Britain.+Public+Record+Office&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DlCOtneGsnPkC%26pg%3DPR152-IA3&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_III" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope Clement III">Pope Clement III</a> is elected.<sup about="#mwt21" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-2" id="mwGw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHA">[2]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt18" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFKenrick1845">Kenrick, Francis Patrick (1845). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fuNhAAAAcAAJ" id="mwBpE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBpI">The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated</i></a>. Philadelphia: M. Fithian. p.<span id="mwBpM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>485. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwBpQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwBpU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1064609490" id="mwBpY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">1064609490</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt18" class="Z3988" id="mwBpc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Primacy+of+the+Apostolic+See+Vindicated&amp;rft.place=Philadelphia&amp;rft.pages=485&amp;rft.pub=M.+Fithian&amp;rft.date=1845&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1064609490&amp;rft.aulast=Kenrick&amp;rft.aufirst=Francis+Patrick&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DfuNhAAAAcAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Brittany" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anne of Brittany">Anne, Duchess of Brittany</a>, is married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" id="mwIQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor">Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_marriage" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Proxy marriage">proxy</a>.<sup about="#mwt26" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-3" id="mwIw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJA">[3]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt23" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWellman2013">Wellman, Kathleen Anne (2013). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_AtUPUB6znMC" id="mwBps" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBpw">Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France</i></a>. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. p.<span id="mwBp0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>70. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBp4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBp8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780300178852" id="mwBqA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780300178852"><bdi id="mwBqE">9780300178852</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt23" class="Z3988" id="mwBqI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Queens+and+Mistresses+of+Renaissance+France&amp;rft.place=New+Haven%2C+Conn.&amp;rft.pages=70&amp;rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=9780300178852&amp;rft.aulast=Wellman&amp;rft.aufirst=Kathleen+Anne&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_AtUPUB6znMC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dreux" id="mwKA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Dreux">Battle of Dreux</a> takes place during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion" id="mwKQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Wars of Religion">French Wars of Religion</a>.<sup about="#mwt31" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-4" id="mwKg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKw">[4]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt28" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGreat_Britain._Public_Record_OfficeArthur_John_ButlerSophia_Crawford_LomesAllen_Banks_Hinds1966">Great Britain. Public Record Office; Arthur John Butler; Sophia Crawford Lomes; Allen Banks Hinds (1966). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UmjSAAAAMAAJ" id="mwBqY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBqc">Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth: Preserved in the Public Record Office</i></a>. H.M. Stationery Office. p.<span id="mwBqg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>569.</cite><span about="#mwt28" class="Z3988" id="mwBqk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Calendar+of+State+Papers%2C+Foreign+Series%2C+of+the+Reign+of+Elizabeth%3A+Preserved+in+the+Public+Record+Office&amp;rft.pages=569&amp;rft.pub=H.M.+Stationery+Office&amp;rft.date=1966&amp;rft.au=Great+Britain.+Public+Record+Office&amp;rft.au=Arthur+John+Butler&amp;rft.au=Sophia+Crawford+Lomes&amp;rft.au=Allen+Banks+Hinds&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DUmjSAAAAMAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

The ships <a about="#mwt33" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"ship","href":"./Template:Ship"},"params":{"1":{"wt":""},"2":{"wt":"Susan Constant"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Constant" id="mwMQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Susan Constant" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><i>Susan Constant</i></a>, <a about="#mwt34" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"ship","href":"./Template:Ship"},"params":{"1":{"wt":""},"2":{"wt":"Godspeed"},"3":{"wt":"ship"},"4":{"wt":"2"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_(ship)" id="mwMg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Godspeed (ship)" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><i>Godspeed</i></a>, and <a about="#mwt35" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"ship","href":"./Template:Ship"},"params":{"1":{"wt":""},"2":{"wt":"Discovery"},"3":{"wt":"1602 ship"},"4":{"wt":"2"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(1602_ship)" id="mwMw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Discovery (1602 ship)" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><i>Discovery</i></a> depart England carrying settlers who founded, at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia" id="mwNA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jamestown, Virginia">Jamestown, Virginia</a>, the first of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" id="mwNQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thirteen Colonies">thirteen colonies</a> that became the United States.<sup about="#mwt39" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-5" id="mwNg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwNw">[5]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt36" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFOld_Dominion_Society_(New_York,_N.Y.)George_William_Summers1860">Old Dominion Society (New York, N.Y.); George William Summers (1860). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qC1EAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA12" id="mwBq0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBq4">First Celebration of the Anniversary of the Settlement at Jamestown, Va., on the 13th of May, 1607</i></a>. Pudney &amp; Russell, printers. p.<span id="mwBq8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>12.</cite><span about="#mwt36" class="Z3988" id="mwBrA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=First+Celebration+of+the+Anniversary+of+the+Settlement+at+Jamestown%2C+Va.%2C+on+the+13th+of+May%2C+1607&amp;rft.pages=12&amp;rft.pub=Pudney+%26+Russell%2C+printers&amp;rft.date=1860&amp;rft.au=Old+Dominion+Society+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29&amp;rft.au=George+William+Summers&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DqC1EAQAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA12&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Swamp_Fight" id="mwOw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Great Swamp Fight">Great Swamp Fight</a>, a pivotal battle in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip's_War" id="mwPA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="King Philip's War">King Philip's War</a>, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.<sup about="#mwt44" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-6" id="mwPQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwPg">[6]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt41" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFWakefield1984">Wakefield, Robert S. (1984). "Plymouth Colony Casualties in King Philip's War". <i id="mwBrQ">The American Genealogist</i>: 238–239.</cite><span about="#mwt41" class="Z3988" id="mwBrU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+American+Genealogist&amp;rft.atitle=Plymouth+Colony+Casualties+in+King+Philip%27s+War&amp;rft.pages=238-239&amp;rft.date=1984&amp;rft.aulast=Wakefield&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+S.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine" id="mwQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a> publishes one of a series of pamphlets in <i id="mwQw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pennsylvania_Journal" id="mwRA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Pennsylvania Journal">The Pennsylvania Journal</a></i> entitled "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Crisis" id="mwRQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The American Crisis">The American Crisis</a>".<sup about="#mwt49" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-7" id="mwRg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwRw">[7]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt46" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFKeane1995">Keane, John (1995). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=E4-I0O4n5jsC" id="mwBrk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBro">Tom Paine: A Political Life</i></a>. New York: Grove Press. p.<span id="mwBrs" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>576, fn. 11. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBrw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBr0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780802139641" id="mwBr4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780802139641"><bdi id="mwBr8">9780802139641</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt46" class="Z3988" id="mwBsA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Tom+Paine%3A+A+Political+Life&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=576%2C+fn.+11&amp;rft.pub=Grove+Press&amp;rft.date=1995&amp;rft.isbn=9780802139641&amp;rft.aulast=Keane&amp;rft.aufirst=John&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DE4-I0O4n5jsC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" id="mwSw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington" id="mwTA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> goes into winter quarters at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forge" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Valley Forge">Valley Forge, Pennsylvania</a>.<sup about="#mwt54" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-8" id="mwTw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUA">[8]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt51" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFTrussell1976">Trussell, John B.B. (1976). <a class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.39000003345225" id="mwBsQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBsU">Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment</i></a>. Harrisburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. p.<span id="mwBsY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>iii. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Hdl_(identifier)" id="mwBsc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027%2Finu.39000003345225" id="mwBsg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">2027/inu.39000003345225</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwBsk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwBso" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3538099" id="mwBss" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">3538099</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt51" class="Z3988" id="mwBsw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Birthplace+of+an+Army%3A+A+Study+of+the+Valley+Forge+Encampment&amp;rft.place=Harrisburg%2C+Pa.&amp;rft.pages=iii&amp;rft.pub=Pennsylvania+Historical+and+Museum+Commission&amp;rft.date=1976&amp;rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F2027%2Finu.39000003345225&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F3538099&amp;rft.aulast=Trussell&amp;rft.aufirst=John+B.B.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2027%2Finu.39000003345225&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" id="mwVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Pitt the Younger">William Pitt the Younger</a> becomes the youngest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" id="mwVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> at 24.<sup about="#mwt56" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-9" id="mwVg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwVw">[9]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><a class="external text" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt" id="mwBs8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">William Pitt 'The Younger'</a><a class="external autonumber" href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1584988189827235855" id="mwBtA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"></a></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition" id="mwWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="War of the First Coalition">War of the First Coalition</a>: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Toulon" id="mwXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Toulon">Siege of Toulon</a> ends when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon" id="mwXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a>'s French artillery forces the British to abandon the city, securing southern France from invasion.<sup about="#mwt61" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-10" id="mwXg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwXw">[10]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt58" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFForczykHook2005">Forczyk, Robert; Hook, Adam (2005). <i id="mwBtQ">Toulon 1793<span id="mwBtU" typeof="mw:DisplaySpace"> </span>: Napoleon's first great victory</i>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBtY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBtc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-184603-674-3" id="mwBtg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-184603-674-3"><bdi id="mwBtk">978-184603-674-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt58" class="Z3988" id="mwBto" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Toulon+1793+%3A+Napoleon%27s+first+great+victory&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.isbn=978-184603-674-3&amp;rft.aulast=Forczyk&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert&amp;rft.au=Hook%2C+Adam&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" id="mwYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a>: Two British frigates under Commodore <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson" id="mwZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a> and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_19_December_1796" id="mwZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Action of 19 December 1796">engage in battle</a> off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murcia" id="mwZg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Murcia">Murcia</a>.<sup about="#mwt66" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-11" id="mwZw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwaA">[11]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt63" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHoratio_Nelson_Nelson_(Viscount)1845">Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount) (1845). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_j1TAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA321" id="mwBt4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBt8">The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson with Notes by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas: 1795 to 1797. 2</i></a>. Henry Colburn. p.<span id="mwBuA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>321.</cite><span about="#mwt63" class="Z3988" id="mwBuE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Dispatches+and+Letters+of+Vice+Admiral+Lord+Viscount+Nelson+with+Notes+by+Sir+Nicholas+Harris+Nicolas%3A+1795+to+1797.+2&amp;rft.pages=321&amp;rft.pub=Henry+Colburn&amp;rft.date=1845&amp;rft.au=Horatio+Nelson+Nelson+%28Viscount%29&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_j1TAAAAcAAJ%26pg%3DPA321&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" id="mwbA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President of the United States</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Calhoun" id="mwbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John C. Calhoun">John C. Calhoun</a> sparks the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_Crisis" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nullification Crisis">Nullification Crisis</a> when he anonymously publishes the <i id="mwbw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Exposition_and_Protest" id="mwcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Carolina Exposition and Protest">South Carolina Exposition and Protest</a></i>, protesting the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1828" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tariff of 1828">Tariff of 1828</a>.<sup about="#mwt71" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-12" id="mwcg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcw">[12]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt68" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFSmith2017">Smith, Courtney (2017). "Volume II Chronology". In Smith, Courtney (ed.). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-R6ZDQAAQBAJ" id="mwBuU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBuY">American History Through Its Greatest Speeches: A Documentary History of the United States. Vol. 2: The 19th Century</i></a>. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. p.<span id="mwBuc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>xxiii. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBug" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBuk" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781610699693" id="mwBuo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781610699693"><bdi id="mwBus">9781610699693</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt68" class="Z3988" id="mwBuw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Volume+II+Chronology&amp;rft.btitle=American+History+Through+Its+Greatest+Speeches%3A+A+Documentary+History+of+the+United+States.+Vol.+2%3A+The+19th+Century&amp;rft.place=Santa+Barbara%2C+Calif.&amp;rft.pages=xxiii&amp;rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&amp;rft.date=2017&amp;rft.isbn=9781610699693&amp;rft.aulast=Smith&amp;rft.aufirst=Courtney&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-R6ZDQAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopetoun_Blunder" id="mwdw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hopetoun Blunder">Hopetoun Blunder</a>: The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_Australia" id="mweA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Governor-General of Australia">Governor-General of Australia</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hope,_7th_Earl_of_Hopetoun" id="mweQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun">John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun</a>, appoints Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyne" id="mweg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Lyne">William Lyne</a> premier of the new state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.<sup about="#mwt76" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-13" id="mwfA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwfQ">[13]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt73" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBrian_Carroll2004">Brian Carroll (2004). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W8PUBuw4idYC&amp;pg=PA23" id="mwBvA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBvE">Australia's Prime Ministers: From Barton to Howard</i></a>. Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited. p.<span id="mwBvI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>23. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBvM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBvQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-877058-22-6" id="mwBvU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-877058-22-6"><bdi id="mwBvY">978-1-877058-22-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt73" class="Z3988" id="mwBvc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Australia%27s+Prime+Ministers%3A+From+Barton+to+Howard&amp;rft.pages=23&amp;rft.pub=Rosenberg+Publishing+Pty%2C+Limited&amp;rft.date=2004&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-877058-22-6&amp;rft.au=Brian+Carroll&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DW8PUBuw4idYC%26pg%3DPA23&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous army treason trial known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dreyfus affair">Dreyfus affair</a>.<sup about="#mwt81" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"}}' id="cite_ref-14" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-14" id="mwgQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwgg">[14]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"><cite about="#mwt78" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLegrand1987">Legrand, Jacques (1987). <i id="mwBvs">Chronicle of the 20th Century</i>. Ecam Publication. p.<span id="mwBvw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>22. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBv0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBv4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-942191-01-3" id="mwBv8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-942191-01-3"><bdi id="mwBwA">0-942191-01-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt78" class="Z3988" id="mwBwE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Chronicle+of+the+20th+Century&amp;rft.pages=22&amp;rft.pub=Ecam+Publication&amp;rft.date=1987&amp;rft.isbn=0-942191-01-3&amp;rft.aulast=Legrand&amp;rft.aufirst=Jacques&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darr_Mine_disaster" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Darr Mine disaster">Darr Mine Disaster</a> in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobs_Creek_(Pennsylvania)" id="mwiQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jacobs Creek (Pennsylvania)">Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania</a>.

William Van Schaick, captain of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat" id="mwjQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Steamboat">steamship</a> <a about="#mwt82" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"PS","href":"./Template:PS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"General Slocum"},"2":{"wt":""},"3":{"wt":"2"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum" id="mwjg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="PS General Slocum" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><i>General Slocum</i></a> which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" id="mwjw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Howard Taft">William Howard Taft</a> after <style about="#mwt83" data-mw='{"name":"templatestyles","attrs":{"src":"Fraction/styles.css"},"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"frac","href":"./Template:Frac"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"3"},"2":{"wt":"1"},"3":{"wt":"2"}},"i":0}}]}' data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027" id="mwkA" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span about="#mwt83" class="frac" id="mwkQ">3<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span><span typeof="mw:Entity">⁄</span><span class="den">2</span></span> years in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_Sing" id="mwkg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sing Sing">Sing Sing</a> prison.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I_of_Greece" id="mwlg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Constantine I of Greece">King Constantine I</a> is restored as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Greece_(Glücksburg)" id="mwlw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)">King of the Hellenes</a> after the death of his son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Greece" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexander of Greece">Alexander of Greece</a> and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Referendum">plebiscite</a>.

The last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Ghost" id="mwnQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost">Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost</a> is sold in London, England.

German serial killer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haarmann" id="mwoA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fritz Haarmann">Fritz Haarmann</a> is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

Three Indian revolutionaries, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Prasad_Bismil" id="mwpA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ram Prasad Bismil">Ram Prasad Bismil</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roshan_Singh" id="mwpQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roshan Singh">Roshan Singh</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashfaqulla_Khan" id="mwpg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ashfaqulla Khan">Ashfaqulla Khan</a>, are executed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" id="mwpw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British Raj">British Raj</a> for participation in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakori_conspiracy" id="mwqA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kakori conspiracy">Kakori conspiracy</a>.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" id="mwrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> promulgates the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purna_Swaraj" id="mwrQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Purna Swaraj">Purna Swaraj</a> (the Declaration of the Independence of India).

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service" id="mwsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="BBC World Service">BBC World Service</a> begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Ryti" id="mwtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Risto Ryti">Risto Ryti</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Finland" id="mwtg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Finland">Prime Minister of Finland</a>, is elected <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Republic_of_Finland" id="mwtw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the Republic of Finland">President of the Republic of Finland</a> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Finnish_presidential_election" id="mwuA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1940 Finnish presidential election">presidential election</a>, which is exceptionally held by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Finnish_presidential_election" id="mwuQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1937 Finnish presidential election">1937 electoral college</a>.<sup about="#mwt91" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"}}' id="cite_ref-15" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-15" id="mwug" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwuw">[15]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt92" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-16" id="mwvA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwvQ">[16]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"><a href="./Dieter_Nohlen" id="mwBwQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dieter Nohlen">Dieter Nohlen</a> &amp; Philip Stöver (2010) <i id="mwBwU">Elections in Europe: A data handbook</i>, p. 628. <a about="#mwt88" class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBwc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span about="#mwt88" id="mwBwg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a about="#mwt88" href="./Special:BookSources/978-3-8329-5609-7" id="mwBwk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-8329-5609-7">978-3-8329-5609-7</a></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwwQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" id="mwwg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> appoints himself as head of the <i id="mwww"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberkommando_des_Heeres" id="mwxA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oberkommando des Heeres">Oberkommando des Heeres</a></i>.

World War II: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpet_mine" id="mwxw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Limpet mine">Limpet mines</a> placed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Navy" id="mwyA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Italian Navy">Italian</a> divers heavily damage <a about="#mwt93" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"HMS","href":"./Template:HMS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Valiant"},"2":{"wt":"1914"},"3":{"wt":"6"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Valiant_(1914)" id="mwyQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="HMS Valiant (1914)" typeof="mw:Transclusion">HMS<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Valiant</i></a> and <a about="#mwt94" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"HMS","href":"./Template:HMS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Queen Elizabeth"},"2":{"wt":"1913"},"3":{"wt":"6"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Queen_Elizabeth_(1913)" id="mwyg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913)" typeof="mw:Transclusion">HMS<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Queen Elizabeth</i></a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Alexandria_(1941)" id="mwyw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Raid on Alexandria (1941)">Alexandria harbour</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amery" id="mwzw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Amery">John Amery</a>, British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fascism">Fascist</a>, is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason.

Start of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" id="mw1A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>.

Irish-born physician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Bodkin Adams">John Bodkin Adams</a> is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

India <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_annexation_of_Goa" id="mw3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indian annexation of Goa">annexes</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daman_and_Diu" id="mw3Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Daman and Diu">Daman and Diu</a>, part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India" id="mw3g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Portuguese India">Portuguese India</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt" id="mw4g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Harold Holt">Harold Holt</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia" id="mw4w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Australia">Prime Minister of Australia</a>, is <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declared_death_in_absentia" id="mw5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Declared death in absentia">officially presumed dead</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a>: The last crewed lunar flight, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a>, carrying <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Cernan" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eugene Cernan">Eugene Cernan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Evans_(astronaut)" id="mw6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ronald Evans (astronaut)">Ronald Evans</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Schmitt" id="mw7A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Harrison Schmitt">Harrison Schmitt</a>, returns to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" id="mw7Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Earth">Earth</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" id="mw8Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson Rockefeller</a> is sworn in as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" id="mw8g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President of the United States</a> under President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" id="mw8w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a> under the provisions of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" id="mw9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="25th Amendment to the United States Constitution">25th Amendment to the United States Constitution</a>.

The <span about="#mwt96" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"M","href":"./Template:M"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"s"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mw-A" typeof="mw:Transclusion">M</span><sub about="#mwt96">s</sub><span about="#mwt96" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><link about="#mwt96" href="./Category:Articles_using_MS_magnitude_scale" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/> 5.8 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Bob–Tangol_earthquake" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1977 Bob–Tangol earthquake">Bob–Tangol earthquake</a> strikes Kerman Province in Iran, destroying villages and killing 665 people.<sup about="#mwt100" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-17" id="mw-w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw_A">[17]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"><cite about="#mwt97" class="citation report cs1" id="CITEREFAmbraseysArsovskiMoinfar1979"><a href="./Nicholas_Ambraseys" id="mwBxA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nicholas Ambraseys">Ambraseys, N.N.</a>; Arsovski, M.; Moinfar, A.A. (1979). <a class="external text" href="https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000036434" id="mwBxE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">The Gisk earthquake of 19 December 1977 and the seismicity of the Kuhbanan fault-zone: Iran</a> (Report). <a href="./UNESCO" id="mwBxI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>. p.<span id="mwBxM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>47.</cite><span about="#mwt97" class="Z3988" id="mwBxQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=report&amp;rft.btitle=The+Gisk+earthquake+of+19+December+1977+and+the+seismicity+of+the+Kuhbanan+fault-zone%3A+Iran&amp;rft.pages=47&amp;rft.pub=UNESCO&amp;rft.date=1979&amp;rft.aulast=Ambraseys&amp;rft.aufirst=N.N.&amp;rft.au=Arsovski%2C+M.&amp;rft.au=Moinfar%2C+A.A.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Funesdoc.unesco.org%2Fark%3A%2F48223%2Fpf0000036434&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

Sixteen lives are lost when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penlee_lifeboat_disaster" id="mwAQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Penlee lifeboat disaster">Penlee lifeboat</a> goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.

The original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> trophy, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy#Jules_Rimet_Trophy" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="FIFA World Cup Trophy">Jules Rimet Trophy</a>, is stolen from the headquarters of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Football_Confederation" id="mwAQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Brazilian Football Confederation">Brazilian Football Confederation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a>, Brazil.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sino-British Joint Declaration">Sino-British Joint Declaration</a>, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_101/435" id="mwARE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aeroflot Flight 101/435">Aeroflot Flight 101/435</a> is hijacked to China by its first officer.<sup about="#mwt105" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"Iams"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-Iams-18"}}' id="cite_ref-Iams_18-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-Iams-18" id="mwARI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwARM">[18]</span></a></sup>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" id="mwARc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>, leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, releases <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Andrei Sakharov">Andrei Sakharov</a> and his wife from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Exile">exile</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nizhny Novgorod">Gorky</a>.

The United States Government restores federal recognition to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottawaseppi_Huron_Band_of_Potawatomi" id="mwAR8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi">Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi</a> Native American tribe.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185" id="mwASM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SilkAir Flight 185">SilkAir Flight 185</a> crashes into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musi_River_(Indonesia)" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Musi River (Indonesia)">Musi River</a>, near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palembang" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Palembang">Palembang</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, killing 104.

President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" id="mwASo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton" id="mwASs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Impeachment of Bill Clinton">impeached</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" id="mwASw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a>, becoming the second president of the United States to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_impeachment_in_the_United_States" id="mwAS0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Federal impeachment in the United States">impeached</a>.

The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Labour_Party_of_Turkey/Leninist" id="mwATE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist">Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist</a> attack a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_Movement_Party" id="mwATI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nationalist Movement Party">Nationalist Movement Party</a> office in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul" id="mwATM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" id="mwATQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, killing one person and injuring three.

A record high <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure" id="mwATg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Atmospheric pressure">barometric pressure</a> of <span about="#mwt106" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"convert","href":"./Template:Convert"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"1085.6"},"2":{"wt":"hPa"},"3":{"wt":"inHg"},"lk":{"wt":"on"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwATk" typeof="mw:Transclusion">1,085.6 </span><a about="#mwt106" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(unit)" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pascal (unit)">hectopascals</a><span about="#mwt106"> (32.06</span><span about="#mwt106" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a about="#mwt106" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch_of_mercury" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Inch of mercury">inHg</a><span about="#mwt106">)</span> is recorded at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosontsengel,_Khövsgöl" id="mwATo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl">Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia" id="mwATs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mongolia">Mongolia</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998–2002_Argentine_great_depression" id="mwAT4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1998–2002 Argentine great depression">Argentine economic crisis</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2001_riots_in_Argentina" id="mwAT8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="December 2001 riots in Argentina">December riots</a>: Riots erupt in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires" id="mwAUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina" id="mwAUE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk's_Ocean_Airways_Flight_101" id="mwAUU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101">Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101</a> crashes into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Cut" id="mwAUY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Government Cut">Government Cut</a> channel immediately after takeoff from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Seaplane_Base" id="mwAUc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Miami Seaplane Base">Miami Seaplane Base</a>, killing 20.<sup about="#mwt111" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"}}' id="cite_ref-19" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-19" id="mwAUg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 19;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAUk">[19]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"><cite about="#mwt108" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFOvalleFantzMatthew_I.2005">Ovalle, David; Fantz, Ashley; Matthew I., Pinzur (December 20, 2005). <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051223130715/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13449191.htm" id="mwByU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Port to reopen as investigation begins into Chalk's plane crash"</a>. <i id="mwByY"><a href="./Miami_Herald" id="mwByc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Miami Herald">Miami Herald</a></i>. Archived from <a class="external text" href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13449191.htm" id="mwByg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">the original</a> on 2005-12-23<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwByk">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwByo">2016-10-12</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt108" class="Z3988" id="mwBys" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Miami+Herald&amp;rft.atitle=Port+to+reopen+as+investigation+begins+into+Chalk%27s+plane+crash&amp;rft.date=2005-12-20&amp;rft.aulast=Ovalle&amp;rft.aufirst=David&amp;rft.au=Fantz%2C+Ashley&amp;rft.au=Matthew+I.%2C+Pinzur&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miami.com%2Fmld%2Fmiamiherald%2F13449191.htm&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye" id="mwAU0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Park Geun-hye">Park Geun-hye</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_South_Korean_presidential_election" id="mwAU4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2012 South Korean presidential election">is elected</a> the first female <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_South_Korea" id="mwAU8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of South Korea">president of South Korea</a>.

Spacecraft <i id="mwAVM"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft)" id="mwAVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gaia (spacecraft)">Gaia</a></i> is launched by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency" id="mwAVU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a>.

Russian ambassador to Turkey <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Karlov" id="mwAVk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Andrei Karlov">Andrei Karlov</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Andrei_Karlov" id="mwAVo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination of Andrei Karlov">assassinated</a> while at an art exhibition in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara" id="mwAVs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ankara">Ankara</a>. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Berlin_truck_attack" id="mwAV4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2016 Berlin truck attack">A vehicular attack</a> in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market" id="mwAV8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Christmas market">Christmas market</a>.

<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonius_Primus" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Antonius Primus">Antonius Primus</a> enters <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rome">Rome</a> to claim the title of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_emperor" id="mwFQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman emperor">Emperor</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero" id="mwFg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nero">Nero</a>'s former general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian" id="mwFw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vespasian">Vespasian</a>.<sup about="#mwt16" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-1" id="mwGA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwGQ">[1]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt13" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFAlexander_Fraser_Tytler_(lord_Woodhouselee.)1858">Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) (1858). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xYQBAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA210" id="mwBiY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBic">Elements of general history. Ed. by B. Turner</i></a>. p.<span id="mwBig" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>210.</cite><span about="#mwt13" class="Z3988" id="mwBik" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Elements+of+general+history.+Ed.+by+B.+Turner&amp;rft.pages=210&amp;rft.date=1858&amp;rft.au=Alexander+Fraser+Tytler+%28lord+Woodhouselee.%29&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DxYQBAAAAQAAJ%26pg%3DPA210&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Richard I of England">Richard I of England</a> is captured and imprisoned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_V,_Duke_of_Austria" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leopold V, Duke of Austria">Leopold V</a> of Austria on his way home to England after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Crusade" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Third Crusade">Third Crusade</a>.<sup about="#mwt21" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-2" id="mwIA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIQ">[2]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt18" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFChronicle_Books1993">Chronicle Books (1 March 1993). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ivo9okUs30wC" id="mwBi0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBi4">Chronicle of the Royal Family</i></a>. Chronicle Communications. p.<span id="mwBi8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>51. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBjA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBjE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-872031-20-0" id="mwBjI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-872031-20-0"><bdi id="mwBjM">978-1-872031-20-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt18" class="Z3988" id="mwBjQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Chronicle+of+the+Royal+Family&amp;rft.pages=51&amp;rft.pub=Chronicle+Communications&amp;rft.date=1993-03-01&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-872031-20-0&amp;rft.au=Chronicle+Books&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Divo9okUs30wC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholic_Church)" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cardinal (Catholic Church)">Cardinal</a> Jacques Fournier, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercians" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cistercians">Cistercian</a> monk, is elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XII" id="mwJw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope Benedict XII">Pope Benedict XII</a>.<sup about="#mwt26" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-3" id="mwKA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKQ">[3]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt23" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPartner1972">Partner, Peter (1972). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bZ6eJuZfTAEC&amp;pg=PA327" id="mwBjg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBjk">The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance</i></a>. University of California Press. p.<span id="mwBjo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>327. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBjs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBjw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-520-02181-5" id="mwBj0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-02181-5"><bdi id="mwBj4">978-0-520-02181-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt23" class="Z3988" id="mwBj8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Lands+of+St.+Peter%3A+The+Papal+State+in+the+Middle+Ages+and+the+Early+Renaissance&amp;rft.pages=327&amp;rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&amp;rft.date=1972&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-520-02181-5&amp;rft.aulast=Partner&amp;rft.aufirst=Peter&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DbZ6eJuZfTAEC%26pg%3DPA327&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase" id="mwLw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louisiana Purchase">Louisiana Purchase</a> is completed at a ceremony in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" id="mwMA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>.<sup about="#mwt31" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-4" id="mwMQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwMg">[4]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt28" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLee1996">Lee, A (1996). <i id="mwBkM">Making America, making American literature: Franklin to Cooper</i>. Amsterdam Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. p.<span id="mwBkQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>347. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBkU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBkY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9789051839098" id="mwBkc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9789051839098"><bdi id="mwBkg">9789051839098</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt28" class="Z3988" id="mwBkk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Making+America%2C+making+American+literature%3A+Franklin+to+Cooper&amp;rft.place=Amsterdam+Atlanta%2C+GA&amp;rft.pages=347&amp;rft.pub=Rodopi&amp;rft.date=1996&amp;rft.isbn=9789051839098&amp;rft.aulast=Lee&amp;rft.aufirst=A&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War" id="mwNg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Siege_of_Zaragoza" id="mwNw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Siege of Zaragoza">Siege of Zaragoza</a> begins.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Clio_(1807)" id="mwOw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="HMS Clio (1807)">HMS <i id="mwPA">Clio</i></a> under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Egmont" id="mwPQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Port Egmont">Port Egmont</a> under orders to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassertion_of_British_sovereignty_over_the_Falkland_Islands_(1833)" id="mwPg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833)">take possession</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a>.<sup about="#mwt36" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-5" id="mwQA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwQQ">[5]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt33" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBrown1987">Brown, David (1987). <i id="mwBk0">The Royal Navy and the Falklands War</i>. London: L. Cooper. p.<span id="mwBk4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>28. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBk8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBlA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780850520590" id="mwBlE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780850520590"><bdi id="mwBlI">9780850520590</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt33" class="Z3988" id="mwBlM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Royal+Navy+and+the+Falklands+War&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=28&amp;rft.pub=L.+Cooper&amp;rft.date=1987&amp;rft.isbn=9780850520590&amp;rft.aulast=Brown&amp;rft.aufirst=David&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848_French_presidential_election" id="mwRQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1848 French presidential election">French presidential election</a>: Having won the popular vote in a landslide, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III" id="mwRg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Napoleon III">Louis Napoleon Bonaparte</a> is inaugurated in the chamber of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Bourbon" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Palais Bourbon">National Assembly</a> as the first (and only) president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Second_Republic" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Second Republic">French Second Republic</a>.<sup about="#mwt41" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-6" id="mwSQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwSg">[6]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt38" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDe_Luna1969">De Luna, Frederick A. (1969). <i id="mwBlc">The French Republic Under Cavaignac, 1848</i>. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp.<span id="mwBlg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>365–395.</cite><span about="#mwt38" class="Z3988" id="mwBlk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+French+Republic+Under+Cavaignac%2C+1848.&amp;rft.place=Princeton%2C+New+Jersey&amp;rft.pages=365-395&amp;rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1969&amp;rft.aulast=De+Luna&amp;rft.aufirst=Frederick+A.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> becomes the first state to attempt to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Secession">secede</a> from the United States with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Declaration_of_Secession" id="mwUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Carolina Declaration of Secession">South Carolina Declaration of Secession</a>.<sup about="#mwt46" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-7" id="mwUQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUg">[7]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt43" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGraham2007">Graham, Cole Blease (2007). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MMqpKirVOzMC&amp;pg=PA16" id="mwBl0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBl4">The South Carolina State Constitution: A Reference Guide</i></a>. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.<span id="mwBl8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>16. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBmE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-313-29299-6" id="mwBmI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-29299-6"><bdi id="mwBmM">978-0-313-29299-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt43" class="Z3988" id="mwBmQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+South+Carolina+State+Constitution%3A+A+Reference+Guide&amp;rft.pages=16&amp;rft.pub=Greenwood+Publishing+Group&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-313-29299-6&amp;rft.aulast=Graham&amp;rft.aufirst=Cole+Blease&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DMMqpKirVOzMC%26pg%3DPA16&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" id="mwWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War I">World War I</a>: The last Australian troops are evacuated from <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign" id="mwWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gallipoli Campaign">Gallipoli</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka" id="mwXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cheka">Cheka</a>, the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwXg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> secret police force, is founded.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" id="mwYg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> is released from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsberg_Prison" id="mwYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Landsberg Prison">Landsberg Prison</a>.<sup about="#mwt51" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-8" id="mwZA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwZQ">[8]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt48" class="citation web cs1" id="mwBmg"><a class="external text" href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/285709" id="mwBmk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Adolph Hitler Leaving Landsberg Prison"</a>. <i id="mwBmo">www.metmuseum.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBms">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBmw">27 April</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt48" class="Z3988" id="mwBm0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.metmuseum.org&amp;rft.atitle=Adolph+Hitler+Leaving+Landsberg+Prison&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metmuseum.org%2Fart%2Fcollection%2Fsearch%2F285709&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<i id="mwaQ"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America_Comics" id="mwag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Captain America Comics">Captain America Comics</a></i> #1, containing the first appearance of the superhero <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America" id="mwaw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Captain America">Captain America</a>, is published.<sup about="#mwt56" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-9" id="mwbA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwbQ">[9]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt53" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFRizzoLicari2021">Rizzo, Marco; Licari, Fabio (2021). <i id="mwBnE">Marvel's Captain America: The First 80 Years</i>. <a href="./Titan_Publishing_Group" id="mwBnI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Titan Publishing Group">Titan Publishing Group</a>. p.<span id="mwBnM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>20. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBnQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBnU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1787737174" id="mwBnY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1787737174"><bdi id="mwBnc">978-1787737174</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt53" class="Z3988" id="mwBng" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Marvel%27s+Captain+America%3A+The+First+80+Years&amp;rft.pages=20&amp;rft.pub=Titan+Publishing+Group&amp;rft.date=2021&amp;rft.isbn=978-1787737174&amp;rft.aulast=Rizzo&amp;rft.aufirst=Marco&amp;rft.au=Licari%2C+Fabio&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: First battle of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Volunteer_Group" id="mwcg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Volunteer Group">American Volunteer Group</a>, better known as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers" id="mwcw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Flying Tigers">Flying Tigers</a>", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming" id="mwdA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kunming">Kunming</a>, China.

World War II: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army_Air_Service" id="mweA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Imperial Japanese Army Air Service">Japanese air forces</a> bomb <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata" id="mweQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kolkata">Calcutta</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" id="mweg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British Raj">India</a>.

<i id="mwfg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Wonderful_Life" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="It's a Wonderful Life">It's a Wonderful Life</a></i> premieres at the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre_(Broadway,_New_York_City)" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Globe Theatre (Broadway, New York City)">Globe Theatre</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New York City">New York</a> to mixed reviews. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130119035038/http://www.eeweems.com/capra/_wonderful_life.html" id="mwgg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><span id="mwgw" typeof="mw:Nowiki">[1]</span></a>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Nankai_earthquake" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1946 Nankai earthquake">An earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan</a> causes a tsunami which kills at least one thousand people and destroys 36,000 homes.<sup about="#mwt62" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-10" id="mwhw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwiA">[10]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt59" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWalker2015">Walker, Brett L. (26 February 2015). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NGt2BgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA292" id="mwBnw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBn0">A Concise History of Japan</i></a>. Cambridge University Press. p.<span id="mwBn4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>292. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBn8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBoA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-107-00418-4" id="mwBoE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-107-00418-4"><bdi id="mwBoI">978-1-107-00418-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt59" class="Z3988" id="mwBoM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=A+Concise+History+of+Japan&amp;rft.pages=292&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2015-02-26&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-107-00418-4&amp;rft.aulast=Walker&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett+L.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DNGt2BgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA292&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution" id="mwjA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indonesian National Revolution">Indonesian National Revolution</a>: The Dutch military <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Kraai" id="mwjQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Kraai">captures Yogyakarta</a>, the temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I" id="mwkQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Experimental Breeder Reactor I">EBR-1</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arco,_Idaho" id="mwkg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Arco, Idaho">Arco, Idaho</a> becomes the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power" id="mwkw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nuclear power">nuclear power plant</a> to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" id="mwlw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-124_Globemaster_II" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Douglas C-124 Globemaster II">C-124</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Moses_Lake_C-124_crash" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1952 Moses Lake C-124 crash">crashes</a> and burns in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Lake,_Washington" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moses Lake, Washington">Moses Lake, Washington</a>, killing 87 of the 115 people on board.<sup about="#mwt67" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-11" id="mwmw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwnA">[11]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt64" class="citation news cs1" id="mwBoc"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170313221017/http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/news/article_d49b70f6-4bc1-11e2-81ab-001a4bcf887a.html" id="mwBog" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Washington State C-124 Crash Remembered"</a>. Archived from <a class="external text" href="http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/news/article_d49b70f6-4bc1-11e2-81ab-001a4bcf887a.html" id="mwBok" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">the original</a> on 2017-03-13.</cite><span about="#mwt64" class="Z3988" id="mwBoo" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Washington+State+C-124+Crash+Remembered&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.columbiabasinherald.com%2Fnews%2Farticle_d49b70f6-4bc1-11e2-81ab-001a4bcf887a.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff" id="mwoA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a> is proclaimed the capital city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales" id="mwoQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wales">Wales</a>, United Kingdom.<sup about="#mwt72" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-12" id="mwog" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwow">[12]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt69" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDavid_Williams2005">David Williams (2005). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Dpfspxo6OBMC&amp;pg=PA21" id="mwBo4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBo8">About Cardiff</i></a>. Graffeg. p.<span id="mwBpA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>21. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBpE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBpI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-9544334-2-0" id="mwBpM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9544334-2-0"><bdi id="mwBpQ">978-0-9544334-2-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt69" class="Z3988" id="mwBpU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=About+Cardiff&amp;rft.pages=21&amp;rft.pub=Graffeg&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-9544334-2-0&amp;rft.au=David+Williams&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DDpfspxo6OBMC%26pg%3DPA21&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

The initial production version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707" id="mwpw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boeing 707">Boeing 707</a> makes its first flight.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" id="mwqw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong" id="mwrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Viet Cong">National Liberation Front of South Vietnam</a>, popularly known as the Viet Cong, is formally established in Tân Lập village, present day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tây_Ninh" id="mwrQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tây Ninh">Tây Ninh province</a>.<sup about="#mwt77" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-13" id="mwrg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwrw">[13]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt74" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFAng2002">Ang, Cheng Guan (2002). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4OgLBUXHikIC" id="mwBpk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBpo">The Vietnam War from the Other Side</i></a>. RoutledgeCurzon. p.<span id="mwBps" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>55. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBpw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBp0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-7007-1615-7" id="mwBp4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-7007-1615-7"><bdi id="mwBp8">0-7007-1615-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt74" class="Z3988" id="mwBqA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Vietnam+War+from+the+Other+Side&amp;rft.pages=55&amp;rft.pub=RoutledgeCurzon&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft.isbn=0-7007-1615-7&amp;rft.aulast=Ang&amp;rft.aufirst=Cheng+Guan&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4OgLBUXHikIC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad" id="mwsw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pennsylvania Railroad">Pennsylvania Railroad</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Metroliner" id="mwtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Budd Metroliner">Budd Metroliner</a> exceeds <span about="#mwt78" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"convert","href":"./Template:Convert"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"155"},"2":{"wt":"mph"},"3":{"wt":"km/h"},"order":{"wt":"flip"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwtQ" typeof="mw:Transclusion">249 kilometres per hour (155</span><span about="#mwt78" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><span about="#mwt78">mph)</span> on their New York Division, also present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak" id="mwtg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Amtrak">Amtrak</a>'s Northeast Corridor.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer" id="mwug" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zodiac Killer">Zodiac Killer</a> murders his first two officially confirmed victims, David Arthur Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen, on Lake Herman Road in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benicia,_California" id="mwuw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Benicia, California">Benicia, California</a>, United States.<sup about="#mwt83" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"}}' id="cite_ref-14" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-14" id="mwvA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwvQ">[14]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"><cite about="#mwt80" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGraysmith1976">Graysmith, Robert (1976). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/zodiac00gray_0/page/14" id="mwBqQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBqU">Zodiac</i></a>. Berkley. p.<span id="mwBqY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>1. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBqc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBqg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-425-09808-0" id="mwBqk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-425-09808-0"><bdi id="mwBqo">978-0-425-09808-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt80" class="Z3988" id="mwBqs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Zodiac&amp;rft.pages=1&amp;rft.pub=Berkley&amp;rft.date=1976&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-425-09808-0&amp;rft.aulast=Graysmith&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fzodiac00gray_0%2Fpage%2F14&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koza_riot" id="mwwQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Koza riot">Koza riot</a>: After a series of hit-and-runs and other vehicular incidents involving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" id="mwwg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States">American</a> service personnel, roughly 5,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_people" id="mwww" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ryukyuan people">Okinawans</a> take to the streets, clashing with American law enforcement in protest against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Civil_Administration_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands" id="mwxA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands">U.S. occupation of Okinawa</a>.<sup about="#mwt88" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"}}' id="cite_ref-15" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-15" id="mwxQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwxg">[15]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"><cite about="#mwt85" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFInoue2007">Inoue, Masamichi S. (2007). <i id="mwBq8">Okinawa and the U.S. Military: Identity Making in the Age of Globalization</i>. New York City: <a href="./Columbia_University_Press" id="mwBrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Columbia University Press">Columbia University Press</a>. p.<span id="mwBrE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>53. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBrI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBrM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0231138918" id="mwBrQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0231138918"><bdi id="mwBrU">978-0231138918</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt85" class="Z3988" id="mwBrY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Okinawa+and+the+U.S.+Military%3A+Identity+Making+in+the+Age+of+Globalization&amp;rft.place=New+York+City&amp;rft.pages=53&amp;rft.pub=Columbia+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=978-0231138918&amp;rft.aulast=Inoue&amp;rft.aufirst=Masamichi+S.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Luis_Carrero_Blanco" id="mwyg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco">Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco</a>: A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_bomb" id="mwyw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Car bomb">car bomb</a> planted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group)" id="mwzA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ETA (separatist group)">ETA</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid" id="mwzQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Madrid">Madrid</a> kills three people, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Spain" id="mwzg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Spain">Prime Minister of Spain</a>, Admiral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Carrero_Blanco" id="mwzw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Luis Carrero Blanco">Luis Carrero Blanco</a>.<sup about="#mwt93" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-16" id="mw0A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw0Q">[16]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt90" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFLuis_R._Aizpeolea2013">Luis R. Aizpeolea (18 December 2013). <a class="external text" href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2013/12/18/inenglish/1387374599_382537.html" id="mwBro" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The day ETA struck a lethal blow to the Franco regime"</a>. <i id="mwBrs"><a class="mw-redirect" href="./El_Pais" id="mwBrw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="El Pais">El Pais</a></i>.</cite><span about="#mwt90" class="Z3988" id="mwBr0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=El+Pais&amp;rft.atitle=The+day+ETA+struck+a+lethal+blow+to+the+Franco+regime&amp;rft.date=2013-12-18&amp;rft.au=Luis+R.+Aizpeolea&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Felpais.com%2Felpais%2F2013%2F12%2F18%2Finenglish%2F1387374599_382537.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

With the approval of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Council_of_the_People’s_Republic_of_China" id="mw1Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="State Council of the People’s Republic of China">State Council</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" id="mw1g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="China">China</a>’s two largest newspapers, the <i id="mw1w"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People’s_Daily" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People’s Daily">People’s Daily</a></i> and the <i id="mw2Q"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangming_Daily" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Guangming Daily">Guangming Daily</a></i>, publish in full for the first time the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_round_of_simplified_Chinese_characters" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second round of simplified Chinese characters">Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme</a>.<sup about="#mwt98" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-17" id="mw3A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw3Q">[17]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"><cite about="#mwt95" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFZhaoBaldauf2008">Zhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B. Jr. (2008). <i id="mwBsE">Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?</i>. Dordrecht: <a href="./Springer_Publishing" id="mwBsI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Springer Publishing">Springer Publishing</a>. p.<span id="mwBsM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>62. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBsU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780387485768" id="mwBsY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780387485768"><bdi id="mwBsc">9780387485768</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt95" class="Z3988" id="mwBsg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Planning+Chinese+Characters%3A+Reaction%2C+Evolution+or+Revolution%3F&amp;rft.place=Dordrecht&amp;rft.pages=62&amp;rft.pub=Springer+Publishing&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=9780387485768&amp;rft.aulast=Zhao&amp;rft.aufirst=Shouhui&amp;rft.au=Baldauf%2C+Richard+B.+Jr.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Tunnel_fire" id="mw4Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Summit Tunnel fire">Summit Tunnel fire</a>, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_rail_transport" id="mw4g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Freight rail transport">freight train</a> carrying over one million liters of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline" id="mw4w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gasoline">gasoline</a> derails near the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todmorden" id="mw5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Todmorden">Todmorden</a>, England, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennines" id="mw5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pennines">Pennines</a>.

<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_and_death_of_Jonelle_Matthews" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Disappearance and death of Jonelle Matthews">Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeley,_Colorado" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Greeley, Colorado">Greeley, Colorado</a>. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about <span about="#mwt102" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"convert","href":"./Template:Convert"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"15"},"2":{"wt":"mi"},"abbr":{"wt":"on"},"order":{"wt":"flip"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mw6g" typeof="mw:Transclusion">24</span><span about="#mwt102" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><span about="#mwt102">km (15</span><span about="#mwt102" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><span about="#mwt102">mi)</span> southeast of Jonelle's home.<sup about="#mwt106" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-18" id="mw6w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw7A">[18]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt110" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"}}' id="cite_ref-19" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-19" id="mw7Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 19;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw7g">[19]</span></a></sup> The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head."<sup about="#mwt114" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"Pietsch"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-Pietsch-20"}}' id="cite_ref-Pietsch_20-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-Pietsch-20" id="mw7w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 20;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw8A">[20]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt103" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFCash2019">Cash, Detective Robert (July 25, 2019). <a class="external text" href="https://greeleypd.com/recovery-of-jonelle-matthews/" id="mwBsw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Remains Found in Weld County Identified"</a>. Greeley Police Department<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBs0">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBs4">July 27,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt103" class="Z3988" id="mwBs8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Remains+Found+in+Weld+County+Identified&amp;rft.pub=Greeley+Police+Department&amp;rft.date=2019-07-25&amp;rft.aulast=Cash&amp;rft.aufirst=Detective+Robert&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgreeleypd.com%2Frecovery-of-jonelle-matthews%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" id="mw9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> announces the institution of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Day" id="mw9Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World Youth Day">World Youth Day</a>.

In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry <i id="mw-Q"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Doña_Paz" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="MV Doña Paz">Doña Paz</a></i> sinks after colliding with the oil tanker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT_Vector" id="mw-w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="MT Vector">MT <i id="mw_A">Vector</i></a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablas_Strait" id="mw_Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tablas Strait">Tablas Strait</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" id="mw_g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs" id="mwAQI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="War on drugs">War on drugs</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" id="mwAQM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> agrees upon and promulgates the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Illicit_Traffic_in_Narcotic_Drugs_and_Psychotropic_Substances" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances">United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances</a>, one of three major drug control treaties currently in force.<sup about="#mwt119" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-21" id="mwAQU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQY">[21]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"><cite about="#mwt116" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFGilmore1991">Gilmore, William C. (1991). "The 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances". <i id="mwBuM">Marine Policy</i>. <b id="mwBuQ">15</b> (3): 2 <span id="mwBuU" typeof="mw:Entity">–</span> via Elsevier Science Direct.</cite><span about="#mwt116" class="Z3988" id="mwBuY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Marine+Policy&amp;rft.atitle=The+1988+United+Nations+Convention+Against+Illicit+Traffic+in+Narcotic+Drugs+and+Psychotropic+Substances&amp;rft.volume=15&amp;rft.issue=3&amp;rft.pages=2&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.aulast=Gilmore&amp;rft.aufirst=William+C.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama" id="mwAQo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States invasion of Panama">United States invasion of Panama</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposition_(politics)" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Deposition (politics)">deposes</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Manuel Noriega">Manuel Noriega</a>.

A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tina_Isa" id="mwARA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Murder of Tina Isa">honor killing of their daughter Palestina</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" id="mwARQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="NATO">NATO</a> begins peacekeeping in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" id="mwARU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_965" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Airlines Flight 965">American Airlines Flight 965</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_757" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boeing 757">Boeing 757</a>, crashes into a mountain 50<span id="mwARo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>km north of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cali">Cali</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" id="mwARw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>, killing 159 of the 163 people on board.<sup about="#mwt124" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-22"}}' id="cite_ref-22" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-22" id="mwAR0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 22;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAR4">[22]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-22"><cite about="#mwt121" class="citation news cs1" id="mwBuo"><a class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9512/colombia_crash/10am_update/index.html" id="mwBus" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"American Airlines jet crashes in the Andes"</a>. <i id="mwBuw"><a href="./CNN" id="mwBu0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="CNN">CNN</a></i>. December 21, 1995<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBu4">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBu8">May 6,</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt121" class="Z3988" id="mwBvA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=CNN&amp;rft.atitle=American+Airlines+jet+crashes+in+the+Andes&amp;rft.date=1995-12-21&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2FWORLD%2F9512%2Fcolombia_crash%2F10am_update%2Findex.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Macau">Macau</a> is <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_Macau" id="mwASM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Transfer of sovereignty over Macau">handed over</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="China">China</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>.

A gang of thieves <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Bank_robbery" id="mwASk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northern Bank robbery">steal £26.5 million</a> worth of currency from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donegall_Square" id="mwASo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Donegall Square">Donegall Square</a> West headquarters of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Bank" id="mwASs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northern Bank">Northern Bank</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast" id="mwASw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" id="mwAS0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, United Kingdom, one of the largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_robbery" id="mwAS4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bank robbery">bank robberies</a> in British history.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" id="mwATI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the United Kingdom, surpassing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" id="mwATM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>, who lived for 81 years and 243 days.<sup about="#mwt129" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-23" id="mwATQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATU">[23]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"><cite about="#mwt126" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFWitchell2015">Witchell, Nicholas (8 September 2015). <a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34172529" id="mwBvQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The Queen: A constant amid gale-force changes"</a>. <i id="mwBvU">BBC News</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBvY">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBvc">27 April</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt126" class="Z3988" id="mwBvg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=The+Queen%3A+A+constant+amid+gale-force+changes&amp;rft.date=2015-09-08&amp;rft.aulast=Witchell&amp;rft.aufirst=Nicholas&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-34172529&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>

The <i id="mwATg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Suzanne_Bloch" id="mwATk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Portrait of Suzanne Bloch">Portrait of Suzanne Bloch</a></i> (1904), by the Spanish artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" id="mwATo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, and <i id="mwATs">O Lavrador de Café</i> by Brazilian modernist painter <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cândido_Portinari" id="mwATw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cândido Portinari">Cândido Portinari</a>, are stolen from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Paulo_Museum_of_Art" id="mwAT0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="São Paulo Museum of Art">São Paulo Museum of Art</a> in Brazil. Both will be recovered a few weeks later.<sup about="#mwt134" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-24" id="mwAT4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAT8">[24]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"><cite about="#mwt131" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFMacSwan,_Angus2007">MacSwan, Angus (2007-12-21). <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071230164038/http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20071221/ten-uk-brazil-picasso-d3877cb_1.html" id="mwBvw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Security questioned in Picasso theft in Brazil"</a>. <a href="./Reuters" id="mwBv0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Reuters">Reuters</a>. Archived from <a class="external text" href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20071221/ten-uk-brazil-picasso-d3877cb_1.html" id="mwBv4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">the original</a> on 2007-12-30.</cite><span about="#mwt131" class="Z3988" id="mwBv8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Security+questioned+in+Picasso+theft+in+Brazil&amp;rft.date=2007-12-21&amp;rft.au=MacSwan%2C+Angus&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.news.yahoo.com%2Frtrs%2F20071221%2Ften-uk-brazil-picasso-d3877cb_1.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>