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What Happened In 12th December In History

Historical Events for December 12th

  • Year 1528 » Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
  • Year 1539 » Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor known as Charles V.
  • Year 1554 » Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned List of Burmese monarchs e.g King of Burma.
  • Year 1616 » The city of Belém is founded in Pará, Brazil by Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
  • Year 1773 » The first public Thirteen Colonies e.g Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
  • Year 1777 » Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
  • Year 1808 » The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh called Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Year 1848 » The Sicilian revolution of independence of 1848 or Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the House of Bourbon known as Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
  • Year 1866 » The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
  • Year 1872 » Yohannes IV of Ethiopia called Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
  • Year 1895 » National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty named The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland known as United Kingdom.
  • Year 1898 » Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
  • Year 1899 » Thirteen crew members and five apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner 'Forest Hall' by the Lynmouth Lifeboat Station known as Lynmouth Lifeboat when the former Shipwrecking Instability and foundering or founders off the coast of Devon.
  • Year 1908 » A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
  • Year 1911 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future President of the Philippines e.g Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
  • Year 1915 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of United States Congress called U.S. Congress.
  • Year 1915 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the suffrage e.g right to vote.
  • Year 1932 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
  • Year 1942 » World War II: President of the United States e.g President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
  • Year 1959 » The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
  • Year 1962 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper (Vietnam) named Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
  • Year 1964 » Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
  • Year 1966 » Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communism named Communist aggression there is ended.
  • Year 1967 » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonics or cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
  • Year 1969 » The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the History of the Baltimore Colts named Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
  • Year 1970 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
  • Year 1971 » The Harrisburg Seven: Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
  • Year 1971 » All in the Family The famous situation comedy premieres on CBS
  • Year 1976 » The United Nations Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
  • Year 1986 » Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Space Shuttle Columbia named 'Columbia' on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.
  • Year 1991 » Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
  • Year 1998 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
  • Year 2001 » Downtown Disney (Disneyland Resort) known as Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
  • Year 2005 » Deep Impact (spacecraft) named Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
  • Year 2006 » Incidents during the Hajj e.g A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
  • Year 2006 » The French warship French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R98) e.g Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
  • Year 2007 » Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches Apsis named perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
  • Year 2010 » The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.

World History for the Month of December