Events324 -
Licinius abdicates his position as
Roman Emperor.1187 -
Pope Clement III is elected.
1606 - The
Susan Constant, the
Godspeed, and the
Discovery depart
England carrying settlers who, at
Jamestown, Virginia, would found the first of the
thirteen colonies that became the
United States.
1777 -
American Revolutionary War:
George Washington's
Continental Army goes into winter quarters at
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1828 -
Nullification Crisis:
Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the
South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the
Tariff of 1828.
1835 - The first issue of
The Blade newspaper is published in
Toledo, Ohio.
1843 -
A Christmas Carol, by
Charles Dickens, is first published in
England.
1910 -
Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th
Chief Justice of the United States.
1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the
steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by
President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in
Sing Sing prison .
1916 -
World War I:
Battle of Verdun - On the
Western Front, the
French Army successfully holds off the
German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
1920 -
King Constantine I restored as King of the
Hellenes after the death of his son
Alexander I of Greece and a plebescite.
1941 -
Hitler becomes Supreme
Commander-in-Chief of the
German Army1961 -
India annexes
Daman and Diu, part of
Portuguese India.
1963 -
Zanzibar receives its
independence from the
United Kingdom, to become a
constitutional monarchy under
Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.
1965 - Prison guard George Hodson is killed during
Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker's escape from
HM Prison Pentridge in
Coburg, Victoria.
1967 -
Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is
officially presumed dead.
1972 -
Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight,
Apollo 17, crewed by
Eugene Cernan,
Ron Evans and
Harrison Schmitt, returns to
Earth.
1981 - Sixteen lives are lost when the
Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1984 - The
Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the
People's Republic of 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
Deng Xiaoping and
Margaret Thatcher.
1997 -
Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the
Musi River, near
Palembang in
Indonesia, killing 104.
1998 -
Lewinsky scandal: The
United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of
impeachment against
President Bill Clinton to the
Senate.
2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the
Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a
Nationalist Movement Party office in
Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 - The fire at the
World Trade Center, as a result of the
September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months.2001 - A record high
barometric pressure of 1085.6
hPa (32.06
inHg) is recorded at
Tosontsengel,
Khövsgöl Province,
Mongolia.2001 -
Argentine economic crisis:
December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in
Buenos Aires after
Domingo Cavallo's
corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
2003 -
Nepal financial crisis leads hundreds to protest outside of presidential palace.
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