Historical Events in December, Month of December Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 6, 1973 | The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.) |
| December 25, 1066 | William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. |
| December 28, 1908 | The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000. |
| December 4, 1619 | Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." |
| December 1, 1862 | In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. |
| December 13, 1937 | Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians. |
| December 9, 2012 | A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people. |
| December 25, 1976 | EgyptAir Flight 664, a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people. |
| December 28, 893 | An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia. |
| December 1, 1640 | End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty. |
| December 29, 1170 | Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church. |
| December 10, 1942 | World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations. |
| December 31, 1660 | James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France. |
| December 4, 1982 | The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution. |
| December 29, 1845 | The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state. |
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