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 Dec 1
1971: Army recaptures part of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan.
1955: American Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man 1965: The Border Security Force is formed in India
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Dec 2
1946: British Govt invites four Indian leaders to obtain the participation of all parties in Constituent Assembly
1961: Cuban leader Fidel Castro says Cuba going to adopt Communism.
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Dec 3
1984: Thousands killed in Bhopal gas tragedy
1989: Malta summit ends Cold War 1971: Pakistan launches pre-emptive strike against India; full-scale war begins International Day of Disabled Persons Advocate's Day in India
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Dec 4
1982: People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
1984: Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers
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Dec 5
1995: Sri Lanka announces conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna 1983: Dissolution of Military Junta in Argentina.
1977: Egypt severs ties with Arab hardliners
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Dec 6
1992: Mob rips apart mosque in Ayodhya
1971: Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India
2006: NASA reveals photos taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting presence of liquid water on Mars
Babri Masjid demolition
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Dec 7
1923: Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, proclaims himself Ludendorff dictator.
1983; Bomb explodes inside the US Capitol Building.
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Dec 8
1941: Holocaust - Gas vans first used as a means of execution, at Chelmno extermination camp near Lódz in Poland.
1991: Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union. The Enlightenment of Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day)
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Dec 10
1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1961: Alfred Luthuli, leader of African National Congress, attacks South Africa's regime
Human Rights Day International Animal Rights Day
The Nobel Prize
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Dec 11
1941: Germany and Italy declare war on US
1918: World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies 1997: The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
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Dec 12
1911: Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India
1941: Adolf Hitler announces extermination of Jews at a meeting in Reich Chancellery
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Dec 13
2001: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament House
2003: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near Tikrit 2004: Former Chilean dictator Pinochet put under house arrest. The house arrest is lifted the same day.
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Dec 14
1972: Last Moon mission, Apollo 17, returns
1962: NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1995: Bosnia peace accord ends three-year war
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Dec 15th
2000 – Third reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down
1917: World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and Central Powers.
1993: Anglo-Irish pact paves way for peace
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Dec 16th
1971: Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan army surrenders
1957: Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as PAK PM
1998: US and UK bomb targets in Iraq
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Dec 17
1961: India seizes Goa from Portugal
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
1996: Six Red Cross workers killed in Chechnya
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Dec 18
1997: HTML 4.0 is published by World Wide Web Consortium
1966: Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
International Migrants Day (observed in some countries)
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Dec 19
2003: Libya gives up chemical weapons
1934: Pratibha Patil is born
1961: India annexes Daman and Diu 1984: Britain signs over Hong Kong to China
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Dec 20
1999: Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.
1942: World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese
1973: Spanish prime minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco assassinated
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Dec 21
1988: A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, killing 270
1995: City of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control 2012: Last day of the Mayan Calendar
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Dec 22
1851: The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India
1974: The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath house attacked by members of Provisional IRA
2003: Hostages freed by Colombian rebels
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Dec 23
1921: Visva-Bharati University inaugurated
2005: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré
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Dec 24
1968: First astronauts orbit Moon
1979: Europe launches first rocket 1962: Bay of Pigs prisoners fly to freedom
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Dec 25
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union
1989: Romania's 'first couple' Nicolae Ceausescu and Elena executed
1990 – The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web Christmas Day
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Dec 26
2004: Tens of thousands killed in Asian tsunami
1925: The Communist Party of India is founded. 1990: Iranian leader upholds Rushdie fatwa
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Dec 27
2007: Benazir Bhutto assassinated by a suicide bomber
1945: World Bank created 2008: Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza
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Dec 28
2007: Nepal declares a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament
1612: Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune.
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Dec 29
1984: Rajiv Gandhi wins landslide election victory
1998 – Leaders of Khmer Rouge apologize for 1970s genocide in Cambodia
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Dec 30
2006: Saddam Hussein executed
1906: The All India Muslim League is founded in Dhaka, East Bengal 1958: Castro's rebels edge closer to capital
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