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==Images==
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File:Jomo Kenyatta 1978.jpg|Jomo Kenyatta
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|Guglielmo Marconi
File:HMS Duchess.jpg|HMS ''Duchess''
File:El Rostro de la Virgen.jpg|Our Lady of Guadalupe
File:Clapham Junction 1988 incident 2 geograph-3149688-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|Scene of the Clapham Junction rail crash
File:Chiang Kai shek in 1936 (cropped).jpg|Chiang Kai-shek
File:Max Verstappen 2017 Malaysia 3.jpg|Max Verstappen
File:OaksCollieryDisaster1866.jpg|Oaks Colliery explosion
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==Ineligible==
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| [[List of national independence days|Independence Day]] in '''[[Kenya]]''' ([[1963]])
| refimprove section
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| [[Calendar of saints|Feast day]] of '''[[Our Lady of Guadalupe]]''' ([[Catholic Church|Catholicism]]);
| lots of unreferenced
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| [[1862]] – [[American Civil War]]: '''{{USS|Cairo}}''' was sunk in the [[Yazoo River]], the first armored ship sunk by a [[naval mine]].
| refimprove section
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| [[1897]] – '''[[Belo Horizonte]]''', the first [[New town|planned city]] of Brazil, was inaugurated as Cidade de Minas.
| cleanup required, expansion, refimprove
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| [[1901]] – '''[[Guglielmo Marconi]]''' received the first transatlantic [[radio]] signal, from [[Poldhu|Poldhu Wireless Station]] in [[Cornwall]], England, to [[Signal Hill, Newfoundland and Labrador|Signal Hill]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]].
| refimprove section
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| [[1911]] – The final '''[[Delhi Durbar]]''', a mass assembly at [[Coronation Park, Delhi|Coronation Park]] to mark the succession of an [[Emperor of India|emperor or empress of India]], took place.
| lots of CN tags (8)
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| [[1915]] – President '''[[Yuan Shikai]]''' of the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]] reinstated the [[Chinese sovereign|monarchy]] and declared himself [[Emperor of China|Emperor]].
| refimprove section
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| [[1935]] – The Nazi '''''[[Lebensborn]]''''' programme, which was later mistakenly believed to engage in coercive [[Selective breeding|breeding]], was established to provide assistance to the wives of [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] members and unmarried mothers.
| Too much uncited
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| [[1918]] – The '''[[flag of Estonia]]''' was raised for the first time atop the [[Pikk Hermann]] in [[Tallinn]].
| refimprove section
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| [[1937]] – Japanese aircraft '''[[USS Panay incident|attacked and sank]]''' [[USS Panay (PR-5)|USS ''Panay'']] while it was anchored in the [[Yangtze]].
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| [[1956]] – The [[Irish Republican Army (1922–69)|Irish Republican Army]] began its '''[[Border campaign (Irish Republican Army)|border campaign]]''', a [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] campaign to overthrow British rule in [[Northern Ireland]].
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| '''[[Yasujirō Ozu]]''' |bd|1903; 1963|
| Too much uncited
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==Eligible==

* [[1388]] – Unable to defend her possessions, [[Maria of Enghien]] sold the '''[[lordship of Argos and Nauplia]]''' to the [[Republic of Venice]].
* [[1866]] – England's worst mining disaster occurred when '''[[Oaks explosion|a series of explosions]]''' ''(depicted)'' caused by [[Firedamp|flammable gases]] ripped through the Oaks Colliery, killing 361 people.
* [[1905]] – In support of the [[Moscow uprising of 1905|December Uprising]] in Moscow, the Council of Workers' Deputies of Kyiv staged a mass uprising, establishing the '''[[Shuliavka Republic]]''' in the city.
* [[1939]] – The [[Royal Navy]] destroyer '''{{HMS|Duchess|H64|6}}''' collided with {{HMS|Barham|04|6}}, the battleship she was escorting, sinking with heavy loss of life.
* [[1941]] – [[The Holocaust]]: At '''[[Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941|a Nazi Party meeting]]''' in the [[Reich Chancellery]], [[Adolf Hitler]] declared the imminent destruction of the [[Jews|Jewish]] people.
* [[1942]] – [[World War II]]: German troops began '''[[Operation Winter Storm]]''', an attempt to relieve encircled [[Axis powers|Axis]] forces during the [[Battle of Stalingrad]].
* [[1964]] – '''[[Jomo Kenyatta]]''' became the first [[List of heads of state of Kenya|president of the Republic of Kenya]].
* [[1969]] – The [[Greek junta]] announced its withdrawal [[Greece in the Council of Europe|from the Council of Europe]] after the junta '''[[Greek case|was found guilty]]''' of torture and other human-rights violations by the [[European Commission of Human Rights]].
* [[1979]] – A {{M|w|8.2|link=y}} earthquake '''[[1979 Tumaco earthquake|struck]]''' just offshore of [[Tumaco]], Colombia, causing at least 300 deaths, mostly by the resulting [[tsunami]].
* [[1985]] – '''[[Arrow Air Flight 1285R]]''' crashed after takeoff in [[Gander International Airport|Gander]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]], Canada, killing 256 people, including 248 members of the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]]'s [[101st Airborne Division]].
* [[2012]] – North Korea made its first successful satellite launch, as '''[[Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2|{{nowrap|Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3}} {{nowrap|Unit 2}}]]''' reached orbit.
* Born/died: | '''[[Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood]]''' |b|1724| '''[[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke|Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]]''' |d|1751| '''[[Johann Christoph Gottsched]]''' |d|1766| '''[[Gustave Flaubert]]''' |b|1821| '''[[Anne Liburd]]''' |b|1920| '''[[Henrietta Swan Leavitt]]''' |d|1921| '''[[Cesar Virata]]''' |b|1930| '''[[Peter Fraser]]''' |d|1950| '''[[Doris Blackburn]]''' |d|1970| '''[[Raymond P. Shafer]]''' |d|2006| '''[[Evelyn S. Lieberman]]''' |d|2015|
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'''[[December 12]]''': Beginning of the '''[[Icelandic Christmas folklore#Yule lads|Yule Lads]]'''{{`}} arrival in Iceland
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* [[627]] – At the '''[[Battle of Nineveh (627)|Battle of Nineveh]]''', the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] army under [[Heraclius|Emperor Heraclius]] defeated the forces of [[Sasanian Empire|Sasanian]] emperor [[Khosrow II|Khosrow II]], commanded by [[Rhahzadh]], near present-day [[Mosul]], Iraq.
* [[1936]] – [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] leader [[Chiang Kai-shek]] '''[[Xi'an Incident|was kidnapped]]''' by Marshal [[Zhang Xueliang|Chang Hsueh-liang]], a former [[Warlord Era|warlord of Manchuria]].
* [[1988]] – '''[[Clapham Junction rail crash|Three trains collided]]''' near [[Clapham Junction railway station]] in London, killing 35 people and injuring 484 others.
* [[2000]] – The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled in '''''[[Bush v. Gore]]''''' that [[2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida|the recount of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election]] be stopped, effectively making [[George W. Bush]] ''(pictured)'' the winner.
* [[2021]] – At the '''[[2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix|season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix]]''', [[Max Verstappen]] overtook [[Lewis Hamilton]] on the final lap to become [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Drivers' Champion]].
{{Born and died list|'''[[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)|Geoffrey]]''' |d|1212|'''[[Edvard Munch]]''' |b|1863| '''[[Ikuhiko Hata]]'''|b|1932| '''[[Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi]]''' |d|2021 }}
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