Historical Events in December, Month of December Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 17, 1926 | Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful. |
| December 11, 1602 | A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.) |
| December 24, 1737 | The Marathas defeat the combined forces of the Mughal Empire, Rajputs of Jaipur, Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab of Awadh and Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Bhopal. |
| December 28, 1912 | The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco. |
| December 1, 1958 | The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns. |
| December 4, 1950 | Korean War: Jesse L. Brown (the 1st African-American Naval aviator) is killed in action during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. |
| December 31, 1983 | Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner. |
| December 15, 1973 | The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. |
| December 31, 1853 | A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England. |
| December 30, 1943 | Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. |
| December 16, 1782 | British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah. |
| December 4, 1983 | US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. One American pilot is killed, one is rescued, and one is captured. |
| December 12, 2012 | North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2. |
| December 19, 1490 | Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy. |
| December 24, 1951 | Libya becomes independent. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya. |
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