Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler’]

Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2001_riots_in_Argentina’]

Project SCORE, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORE_(satellite)’]

Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt’]

A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Manila_Skyway_bus_accident’]

The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa’]

Over 200 of East Pakistan’s intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals…

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a…

The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement’]

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko…