“Bloody Christmas” begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000–30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Christmas_(1963)’]
20 December 1924
Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler’]
19 December 2001
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’]
18 December 1958
Project SCORE, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORE_(satellite)’]
17 December 1967
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’]
16 December 2013
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’]
15 December 2001
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’]
14 December 1971
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…
13 December 1988
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…
12 December 2015
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’]