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On this day - December 12
627 — Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius ...
1388 — Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to ...
1787 — Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the US ...
1862 — American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River.
1866 — Oaks explosion: The worst mining disaster in England kills 361 ...
1870 — Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black ...
1901 — Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio ...
1915 — Yuan Shikai declares the establishment of the Empire of China ...
1917 — Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village ...
1935 — The Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is ...
1936 — The beginning of Xi'an incident. As a result, Chiang Kai ...
1937 — Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese ...
1939 — Winter War: The Battle of Tolvajärvi, also known as the first ...
1939 — HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the ...
1941 — The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler declares the imminent ...
1941 — World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid ...
1945 — The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, ...
1946 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 13 relating to ...
1956 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 121 relating to ...
1963 — Kenya declares independence from Great Britain.
1969 — The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the ...
1979 — Coup d'état of December Twelfth occurs in South Korea.
1979 — The 8.2 Mw Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with ...
1985 — Arrow Air Flight 1285R, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes ...
1988 — The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures ...
1999 — A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines's main ...
2000 — The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush ...
2001 — Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision ...
2012 — North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, ...
2015 — The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework ...
2021 — Dutch Formula One racing driver Max Verstappen wins the ...
2024 — Indian Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju became the undisputed ...